burger order

We had a nice day today. We visited the Amtrak station in Birmingham, located in a truly scary part of downtown, in order to exchange our tickets from an ill-fated train excursion that we had planned to take in Washington last December. Ice and snow prevented that particular trip, and since we had credit with Amtrak, we're planning a short ride for an overnight trip next weekend. Dennis enjoyed visiting the train station very much and kept asking the ticket agent where Thomas was. This morning when I told him we were going to the train station, he announced "okay, we can go ride the pumpkin train again". Amtrak doesn't have anything to do with the Pumpkin Patch Express, which runs at the Calera Railroad Museum every weekend in October, but I was proud of him for making the connection there.

We also spent a short amount of time with the Gallmans this afternoon, and Dennis had the privilege of waking Chloe from her nap. She was not thrilled, but they had fun playing together. I told Dennis it was time to leave, and Chloe looked daggers at me and said "we are hugging right now" and indeed they were. Dennis cried big tears when we left, but he was excited to get home with our new-to-us 32" TV that Dave's dad gave to us! No, it isn't plasma or flat or anything, but it is LARGE, and movies and Wii games on the thing are awesome. We all watched Shrek together tonight and David kept having to pause the movie to appreciate the detail in, say, Shrek's collar or Donkey's fur. Dennis said "this movie is too big!". We are a former 19-inch only family, so 32 does indeed seem quite big to us.

We suppered at McDonald's on the way home, and I ordered my burger with no pickles or onions, and Dennis looked at the cashier and said "that's right, no onions and no popsicles!". He's a fun little guy.