Holy Train Set

"Holy Moly!!!!!!", was all I could say upon returning home from work yesterday and seeing this train table equipped with all the fixin's (buildings, train-like things, extra track, and more trains from the land of Sodor than I thought existed).

A friend of ours had called Kevin the night before and said, "Hey, I have a Thomas the Tank train table and trains to give to Henry if he wants them." (AS IF!) His child has outgrown it. Ok, we thought, that's great - the plan was that Kev would collect it the following day.

We were astounded. We've seen train tables like this before, but didn't really expect to ever own one. Now Henry has no need to leave the house - he is enthralled. As we all are - the little buildings all have little special characteristics - like when the door to the fire engine is lifted, a bell rings. There's a little grain elevator that actually drops grain like pellets in a shoot if you lift a lever. There are bridges of the open and covered variety. There is some water tower like thing with blue liquid in it and when the pump is lifted and lowered the liquid amount in the tower changes so it looks like the trains are being filled with the substance. We have tunnels, we have more track than we know what to do with - altho I suspect Henry will find a use for it all. And I haven't even started talking about the table. But you can see for yourself.

We feel extraordinarily lucky to be the recipient of such a gift. Henry played and played last night with a glazed look in his eyes, and once informed me that, "The bitch is broken. Uh oh, bitch." I fixed that bitch for him... That's my job now. I fix the bitches.