My dad had two Lionel trains: a 1666e and 1666. On a recent trip home I packed up the 1666e, brought it back home with me, and eventually took it to a local train shop to get restored.
For a few Hamiltons I got the locomotive, tender, and transformer up and running. For another $20 I got the track and pins needed to get a decent sized oval.
The only thing left to do was set up the track, tack on a couple other cars, add my son to the mix, and throw the switch.
My 22-month-old son loves dinosaurs. LOVES them. Lucky for him, a colony of dinosaurs recently moved into the Forest Aviary in the Africa Region of the North Carolina Zoo.
After an hour-long wait, my sister and her family, along with my son and I, made our way passed the lions, meerkats, and chimpanzees before finally, FINALLY, getting to the Dinosaurs exhibit. Once inside I thought my son was going to explode out of sheer excitement like that dude in Big Trouble in Little China.
In front of him, hidden throughout the forest, were 15 animatronic dinosaurs (and some ancient plants <– boring). From a Brachiosaurus to a T-Rex to the spitting Dilophosaurus, my son was in Dino heaven.
Each year for the past six years I’ve been Googling “wedding anniversary gift guide by year” and each year I have to wade through a fillion websites to find the list. Not any more. I culled the Internet and created this post as a reference. More for me than for you, but you’re welcome to use it. And if you have no idea what this whole buying of wedding gift business is, here’s the short version.
Some time ago you got married. Be it last year or 50 years ago you are obligated to buy your spouse a gift. Thankfully, there are options. You can follow Emily Post’s etiquette guide created back in 1922 and get your hubby a traditional gift, you can opt for a more modern approach, or you can go with jewelry and/or flowers.
Bottom line. Ladies and dudes, you need to get your lifer a gift and here’s a list to make it easy.
