Amtrak to Roseville

I sent my soon-to-be-five grandson a simple gift certificate with a big picture of the Amtrak train we would be taking to Roseville from Emeryville, CA. It’s the shortest round trip I could do and still experience a dining car. Teo got it in the mail, understood it, told his Mom he would go with me, then wadded up my creation and threw it in the trash. So much for a 5-year old’s sentimentality!  He had not even shown it to Brenton, my son, so I shared this incident with him. But the next day, I got this email from my son:

Actually, when I got home, he asked Terese to dig it back out and show it to me. He was really excited. But then after that, he grabbed hold of the paper with both hands, and with a gleeful “Wooop!” ripped it in two and ran and put the pieces in the recycling. Today, though, he was talking about his preparations for the trip.