el Parque Quinta Normal y el Museo Ferroviario

El Parque Quinta Normal is a huge park near the center of Santiago.  It houses many playgrounds, lakes (with paddle boats), fountains, sport courts, and museums.  While it was a chilly day, it was sunny, so we took advantage and found ourselves outside enjoying the park.

el Museo Ferroviario was one recommended to me by one of my mom's groups for kids on the weekends.  It is a train museum, although it's all outdoors.  Basically a bunch of locomotives and train cars from the early to mid 1900s that were used in Chile that have been refurbished.  The pictures are from the one you can actually walk under, which was really interesting to see the bottom of a train (how often do you see that?).  Steve is super into trains (mechanical engineer, come on), so he absolutely loved it.  We also were able to walk through one that was made in 1910 and used to transport the president of Chile as well as the higher ups in the Catholic Church of Chile.  It was gorgeous on the inside - very fancy and had private bathrooms in the bedrooms with flushing toilets and showers, etc.

 The entrance to the train museum.

The train you could walk underneath.

Under the huge locomotive.

Steve and his train partner.