Brandywine River Museum at Christmas

Our first stop on our Brandywine Christmas meander - the Brandywine River Museum - is the closest to where I left us yesterday, the intersection of Rt. 100 & Baltimore Pike, in Chadds Ford.  

Wistfully wishing I could be there my favorite time of all - this Thursday night, when children are invited to come in pjs & nightgowns, slippers & robes, for a reading of The Polar Express!  Perhaps the buy of the season - $15 for adults, $8 per child includes the reading, hot cocoa & cookies AND admission to the entire museum, which means the wee ones can take their elders to...

The fantastic train display!  

John is still gob-swoggled with joy that he married a woman who loves trains - big & small - almost as much as he does, a gal raised with taking the train every December from Bryn Athyn to Philadelphia on our annual Christmas trip to John Wanamaker's magnificent department store (same architect, similar style to Chicago's Marshall Fields) & making a beeline for the huge toy department with its immense train layout.  

On our first Christmas, I couldn't share that joy with him - it was long gone - but it was soul-satisfying watching his reaction to the splendid train display at the Brandywine!  Imagining how much he'd still wallow in going down on 12/12/15 for the museum's annual Breakfast with the Trains! 

There is far more than trains at the Brandywine River Museum to keep you brimful with holiday happiness - just see all that you can savor, plus a truly dandy museum gift shop.

 

            

  

  

Don't see how it can happen this year, so am putting a Brandywine Christmas overnight on our 2016 to-do list.  Imagining cozying down at the mega elegant Hamanassett country inn, enjoying a leisurely in-room dinner in our perfectly appointed bedroom (guess which one!) watching one or two favorite Christmas dvds before settling down for a long winter's nap, heading down to breakfast the next day, then bidding our farewells as we strike out on a day of basking in the beauty of Brandywine country, with lots of train-watching, large & small.  T'will be BLISS!