Yesterday we went on a train trip with Mom, Dad, Ted, Bob, Carol, Ted & Eric. It was fun, but I’m not sure it was worth $10 a piece, N&D $10, & E Free ($90.) Note: Make sure your window isn’t fogged before you grab a seat.

Santa came throught the train and gave candy bars to all the kids. So that was worth about $3. Carollers came through the train and sang a couple of songs. That was probably worth $3, too. That leaves $84 to account for. Ted thought it was a neat thing to do. I think all of us going to see Star Trek VI would have been neat.

That night we had our Christmas eve dinner at Carol & Bob’s since they are driving to Cinncinati on Christmas Eve. The highlight of the evening was Ted’s gift to Carol, a pop up book called “Where’s Ted?” Carol read it to the whole family (Denise, Grant’s girlfriend was also there) and cracked everyone up. Ted cracked up the most. Ted had pasted a picture of himself eating a racquetball in the place where the little girl finally finds Ted (her teddy bear.)

Bob filmed everything with his new Sony video camera. So if you want to see all of this, it is available in the Etensohn video library.