Emergency Meeting with Sir Topham Hatt and Friends.

If the title of this post gives you no idea what I'm talking about, you probably don't have young kids. Either that or you're living in a van down by the river.

Remember our Christmas in September post where we surprized the kids with a Thomas the Train table and all the fixin's!?

Yes, it is still their favourite toy to play with.
No, that's not the point of this post.

As part of the package, we received 17 VCR tapes documenting the trials and tribulations of the life and people on Sodor Island. To some it may be imaginery but to my kids, Sir Topham Hatt, Thomas and all his friends exist.

And that's where the problem lies.

The kids are at an impressionable age. Since we don't have tv or frequent toy stores with them, I hadn't really had a chance to see it in action until now.

I was shocked.

Christmas in September with Thomas the Train!

If you've been following the blog at all, you know that for the past five years, Ed and I have spent Friday nights socializing at Finnerty's Auction.

Make that five years less one because Ed and I have only been there together, alone, once over the past year.

So sad.

Tonight, Ed was in town getting a new brake caliper for the van so he stopped by Finnerty's to see what they had.


Well, if they didn't have the one thing that we've been looking for since our return from Mexico in March.

Don't worry, I won't ruin the surprise, I'll let Max do that for you.

Let me set the stage.

Imagine that you're Two.

That you love Trains.

So much so that you sleep with one every.single.night and it's the first word you say in the morning.

And you wake up to this...

Then this would probably be your reaction too.

Christmas in September at The Zoo!

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Note that due to the "I Don't Want to Get Sued Like a Lot of Other People" Debacle of 2012, I have been creating all my own graphics or taking my own photographs. Hard to believe huh!?

Besos, The Zoo