Almost a Baby Boomer: Leah and Eli Take the Train

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Leah and Eli Take the Train

Leah took Eli on his first train ride today from St. Louis to Kansas City. Eli was so psyched with his Thomas back pack! We had a little coffee and breakfast across the street from the Kirkwood Station and then walked to the station.

I jumped at the chance to take them to my favorite train station in my favorite town---Kirkwood, Missouri. I was happy to see there were several Missouri Pacific signs around (my dad, grandfather and great-grandfather worked for Mo-Pac)

We even got to see several freight trains go by (the building across the tracks is where we had breakfast)

Eli and Leah even took a little walk.

But, finally we heard the gates coming down and knew it was their train coming.

All Aboard!

They took off at 8:54! Right on time!

I walked back to my car wishing I was on that train, too. . . . maybe next time.

1 comment:

hear.t. and hue said...: oh eli looks sooo cute! fun getting to see all the "before" photos!; March 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM

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Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.