[Image]Last weekend Megan and Kayli stayed with us for the weekend. Desert Boy was so excited to have a sleepover with the cousins! One of the first things on the agenda was to work on the tree house.

[Image]Megan was eager to get to work with the hammer, while Kayli started painting beautiful designs on the walls. I don't think Desert Boy liked me intruding on his quality time with the cousins. He kept scowling at me!

[Image]Kayli is painting under the new coat hook. This is going to be one classy tree house!

[Image]Megan was making a bench for the tree house.

[Image]Desert Girl found the bench just the right height for her. She enjoyed conversing with her cousins. Maybe they understood her better than I do!

[Image]They laughed a lot.

[Image]The next morning was time to head into Ely, Nevada to take advantage of the free train ride weekend. I had to go somewhere else, so I gave my husband the camera and he managed to snap about five usable photos during the entire 2 1/4 hour ride.

[Image]This is a diesel engine on one of the side tracks. They had a steam engine pulling their train.

[Image]It looked like Kayli had a good time. She took over 300 photos on her camera.

[Image]As the train pulled into the station, I went up to the window and got the camera so I could get a few photos.

[Image]It was a nice day for a train ride, quite different from our chilly last experience.

[Image]The engine backed the train into the East Ely Depot.

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[Image]Time to get off the train and off to the next adventure.

[Image]In the afternoon, we headed out to the garden, and Kayli and Megan helped plant seeds.

[Image]We gave Desert Boy his own plot where he could plant anything he wanted. It will be interesting to see what comes up.

[Image]Desert Girl liked playing in the wet dirt.

[Image]That was fine as long as she stayed in the wet dirt where we hadn't planted anything!

[Image]Here's a tiny pea plant poking through the ground.

[Image]And a bit higher.

[Image]The first pea leaves. Wow, those kids are sure super gardeners!

[Image]Everyone had a great time and we hope they can come back again soon!