Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Before I left for Tokyo this April, I talked to Baby G about the city I was about to visit.
"I am going to the land of bullet-trains, you know?" G's interest were piqued by those very words.
I took out the guide book and he kept asking me to show him pictures on Shinkansen; where there were no pictures, the legends on city maps kept him suitably occupied. I whipped out my Iphone for him to watch the trains on You-Tube.
When I returned from Japan, all he asked me were the trains and I excitedly told him the hotel where I stay overlooked so many train lines and every minute there was a train pulling in.
So before we parted ways at the airport for his very own Tokyo trip last week, I told him, "Boy, when you see the Shinkansen, you must think of Yee-Ma, ok?
That was the longest week of my life...not seeing G and his younger brother. His family has talked about going to Tokyo (Japan) for the longest time and I couldn't wait to hear about their trip -- how G must be in dreamland with the plane, the trains and other automobiles.
Seeing them for dinner tonight was a great way to end the week. I kissed G's cherubic face and greeted him with, "So how was the Shinkansen?"
"I sat on the JR (Japan Railway) line! But I didn't think of you."
Gotta love the kid for being honest.
"I am going to the land of bullet-trains, you know?" G's interest were piqued by those very words.
I took out the guide book and he kept asking me to show him pictures on Shinkansen; where there were no pictures, the legends on city maps kept him suitably occupied. I whipped out my Iphone for him to watch the trains on You-Tube.
When I returned from Japan, all he asked me were the trains and I excitedly told him the hotel where I stay overlooked so many train lines and every minute there was a train pulling in.
So before we parted ways at the airport for his very own Tokyo trip last week, I told him, "Boy, when you see the Shinkansen, you must think of Yee-Ma, ok?
That was the longest week of my life...not seeing G and his younger brother. His family has talked about going to Tokyo (Japan) for the longest time and I couldn't wait to hear about their trip -- how G must be in dreamland with the plane, the trains and other automobiles.
Seeing them for dinner tonight was a great way to end the week. I kissed G's cherubic face and greeted him with, "So how was the Shinkansen?"
"I sat on the JR (Japan Railway) line! But I didn't think of you."
Gotta love the kid for being honest.