Trains, trains and more trains

For his birthday, Debbie Kinder gave Tom a beautiful print from an old H. H. Bennett photograph of a train. (Bennett was an important photographer who lived in the Dells and who invented stop-action photography. Debbie is his granddaughter.) Tom printed up a few pictures to go along with it and arranged the photos (the Bennett one is in the middle) on the wall at the end of the buffet, between the dining room and the library. It turned out very well, even though the pictures look a bit lopsided in this photo.

To continue the train theme, Rebecca and David sent him a train-themed board game, Ticket to Ride. After I went to bed last night, Tom and Michelangelo played it to try to figure out how it works. They were a little perplexed at the beginning, but decided by the end that they liked it. I imagine it will be a big hit when everyone is here over the Christmas holidays.

The people who make this game also have one based on a monastery. The ad for it says, "Never trust a Benedictine." I wish I had one to give to some of my Benedictine friends.