I enjoyed a flashback to childhood today, and what better time for that than during the Holiday season? When I was four years old my six year old boyfriend, who lived down the block, had a wonderful model train set up in the basement of his family home. Looking back, I'm pretty sure his dad had a hand in the layout and design of the display, but all I knew was that when Tommy (yes that name does run through my life story) pressed certain levers and buttons, miniature very realistic looking trains ran around and around tracks, over and under bridges, and through cunning little villages. Lights flashed, whistles blew, and it was all quite marvelous. Perhaps I've mentioned before that I am easily entertained. But fast forward to today. My FF and I went to the model train exhibit at Science Central. It was fun. I enjoyed watching the dozen or so kids on the floor arranging and rearranging yards of track and running their trains all around. It was even more fun watching the "big boys" running their electric trains around two large tables of tracks. In the center of one set up was a little Christmas tree with a train running around the base. You may have had a set up like that around your tree once upon a time. I did enjoy watching the trains running on their tracks, but I do think it was more exciting watching from eye level, all those years ago.
PS In case you're wondering, Tommy and I drifted apart. He grew up to be 5'2" to my 5'10" so it probably wouldn't have worked out anyway, but when I was five I received my first proposal, with a real ring (a blue plastic one from a Cracker Jack box) from the boy who lived across the street. It's hard to fight a proposal like that. Alas, the following year my family moved away from Fort Wayne, so that romance was also cut short.
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