The Trolley

Madison's favorite tv show right now is a PBS show called "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood." It's a spinoff of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and is awesome at teaching life lessons like sharing, dealing with anger and disappointment and what to do when you're scared! I'm grateful for Daniel Tiger :) Of course, there's a trolley in the show so Madison has consequently fallen in love with trolleys and talks about riding them all the time. Thankfully, we have one right here in Memphis!! They run around the downtown area and along the Riverfront, and there's actually a stop right outside SCO! They've been restored to look just like they did back in the day and are a lot of fun to ride on. We went on them a couple times when we first moved here but not since so we decided we needed to go again so Madison could get her fix! A few of our friends wanted to get together for dinner so we suggested a place called Trolley Stop that's right on the trolley line (duh!) and decided to park at SCO, ride the trolley to the restaurant and then ride around downtown and the river front to make it a fun evening out. We talked the Kowallis family into coming downtown on the trolley with us after dinner and had a great time!!! Madison loved it!!

Story time - After dinner, we were waiting at the trolley stop to board the one going downtown. Another trolley going a different direction stopped at the platform, but we obviously didn't get on since it wasn't the one we wanted. Unfortunately, we evidently didn't explain this well enough to Madison. As the trolley pulled away from the platform, she turned to me with the most pitiful look on her face like she was trying so hard to be a big girl and not cry and then she just burst into tears, sobbing that we didn't get to ride on the trolley again. I seriously loved her so much in that moment!! I explained that that trolley was going back to the car and we didn't want to go back to the car yet since we still wanted to have fun riding on the trolley so we were going to wait for the right trolley to come get us so we could ride around more. Thankfully, it came soon and order was restored to the universe! Cute girl :)

Ready to ride! 

(With our ginormous pizza leftovers! We highly recommend Trolley Stop!)

Three cute girls

Maddie and Daddy

Think she's having fun?! :)

Just chillin' - typical McKinley!

She rode like this most of the way... 

(please note Jordan's arm firmly around her!)

...except when she wanted to be a big girl and stand up on the trolley

Waiting for our ride

Here it comes!

 Bye trolley!