Showing posts with label Grandpa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grandpa. Show all posts

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Christmas Train

Every  year, Grandpa H puts up a Christmas holiday train.  This year he got a new passenger car.  I believe the interior lights up and it has passenger seating and everything.




 A and Grandpa unpacked the rest of the train.  It's a Bachman, G scale.






 There are various figures who come with the train.  There's an engineer, a Santa, and three Elves. 







 The Engineer shoves coal into the engine.  He had a little mis-hap the trial run and fell out of the coal tender.








 The train has a gondola car--filled with giant gifts--and a caboose.
 The caboose has a tendency to become uncoupled with the rest of the train.  I think the couplings have to do a kind of back-and-forth engagement before the caboose will stay attached.






















Once the train and track are set up, Grandpa will put in a smallish tree, a mirror (for the frozen pond) and various English Village buildings he modeled after a real English Village that is the Ancestral Origin of the Family (and which they visited about twenty years ago).

Monday, June 10, 2013

Opera Birthday


This year was the "Night at the Opera" Birthday.















 








The Duke Manchua greated visitors with song.








The cake.








Turned into a Victrola cake.








 There were many props.  The boat sailed between two banks of waves.








 Grandpa (and Grandma) came dressed as the audience.







 
 Meet me by the Ducal Palace of Manchua.