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The train
By Paul | July 13, 2008
Do you remember playing with trains or watching trains when you were a kid? I do. I loved to stare at trains passing by, count the carts, and wave my hand hoping the engineer would see me and wave back. I had a pretty big electric train set at home that I played a lot with. I had friends coming over to play with it too. It was so cool.
Now I’m 33 and I still play a lot with trains. Why, you may ask? Well, somehow my 2 years old son inherited “the thing for trains” after me… I guess. I wonder if there are any DNA tests that could prove it ;-).
Anyway, the train motive is a big part of my son’s playground, book collection and DVD set. Forget about Teddy Bear, Winnie The Pooh, Baby Einstein, Sesame Street and others. In our house Thomas The Tank Engine is THE KING!!!
My son knows at least 20 unique names of the trains in the series. We had to learn them by heart as well to know what’s going on on the Island of Sodor (I’m sure some parents smiled reading this). In addition we figured out the train schedule that runs close to our subdivision so we could show Kuba the real train. I remember the first time we went to see the train, he was hypnotized. I don’t think he blinked his eyes once. He just stared at it with a wide open mouth.
We still go to see the train couple times a week and we’ve noticed that more and more people started coming with their kids as well. It’s so funny to see that. Last week I brought my camera with me to take couple pictures. I never thought that watching a train with my son would bring so many memories from my childhood.
I think that these pictures will be priceless years from now. They will help to preserve all the good times we had as a family and the moments in our life that just passed by and will never happen again. My advice: take a lot of pictures of your family, friends and everything that’s important in your life. It will pay back in the future. Trust me :-).
On the way back we saw some lightning bugs that I tried to photograph “in motion”. I know they’re hard to see.
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