Do you ever feel extremely lucky by circumstances? This week the stars just aligned right for us. Our two boys, and particularly Bug, the 2-year old, is addicted to trains. He can hardly contain himself sitting on my father’s stools watching his Lionel train layout in the basement. I love seeing the passion in Bug’s eyes when it comes to hearing a train whistle blow.

So our family has been in the preliminary planning phases to head down to Cincinnati for a weekend trip to see EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ). The facility houses over 25,000 SF of model train layouts. In addition, and where I think EJ is tremendously smart, is they also are attached to a funhouse. From a business perspective, they really seem to have done a great job of targeting to their audiences needs and to make the place a destination for families to enjoy. That is why we are super excited to go.

Earlier in the week, the Cincinnati Groupon offered admission to the Queen City Underground Tour. At that point, we leaped at the chance to purchase tickets, as we knew we could pair our weekend with a trip to EnterTRAINment Junction. When I was in Seattle years ago, I went on their underground tour and was really impressed by the history on why the tunnels existed. I was not even aware that Cincinnati had an underground story until now, so we look forward to getting to see and learn some new information.

Well fast forward to today, and the Cincinnati Groupon is for EnterTRAINment Junction! What are the chances of this? Now, by purchasing and using Groupon to facilitate our trip to Cincinnati, we have saved some money AND it encouraged us to take the trip sooner than later. EnterTRAINment Junction earned the distinction of being one of Best of 2011 according to Groupon, so surely the 920 other people who bought the EnterTRAINment Junction Groupon back in November 2011 can not be wrong.

Here is to looking forward to an excellent weekend in the coming month or so in Cincinnati! Save Money, Travel More!