Today we are heading to the city to spend time with the
kids. Our plans are to meet up at the Ohio State Fairgrounds to attend a train
show, and then have ‘make your own pizzas’ at Kerry and Ben’s house. This will
be one of the last get-togethers at their Merion Village home (just outside of
German Village) because they just took possession of the keys to their new
home, in Reynoldsburg. With a 5 year old and 1 year old and new baby soon to
arrive, their family had outgrown their first home.
Our family is especially interested in trains because we
have a mile and half of large scale model train tracks in our woods, which is
beside a regular, life-sized track on the north. In fact, our 14 acres of woods
originally belonged to the railroad. When it was built there must have been
plans for a large expansion to have such a huge right-of-way. When the railroad
decided they were not expanding new lines, they offered to sell the
right-of-ways for a song. Now, I am known to sing off-key most of the time, but
was lucky enough to hit the right notes when I needed them.
The Buckeye Rail Model Engineers were also eye-balling the
parcel and approached us to let them build their track on part of the land.
Many fun parties and events, such as birthday parties and Halloween Fun Days,
are the result of their (and our) efforts. All pictures of our train events are on my laptop computer, will edit this post with a picture later today or tomorrow...promise!
**Note: No picture of the train club, I'll save that for a later date. Our plans changed when we got to Columbus and instead of going to the train show, we went to Blacklick Metro Park and Nature Center instead, which is a handy 5 minute drive from Kerry and Ben's new house. We saw lots of birds, squirrels, Canada geese and Mallard ducks as well as taking a (very) short hike in the frosty air.
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