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A really special place to me is my grandparent's garage. I know, I know. You read that and thought, what the heck...? But see, my grandparent's garage is definitely NOT like most other garages. Mostly because it is filled with all of my grandpa's model train sets.
After my dad, aunt, and uncle all moved out, my grandpa 'got bored.' He built a little world with paper maiche (sp?) and wood in his garage and he bought miniature buildings and trees and little people that he would glue on the surface. He painted the garage walls to look like the sky. Then he bought tons of train tracks and he would spend hours in the garage setting them up, trying to fix every little wire into it's proper place. Then he bought the trains. He probably had around 100. There was a control center right by the door so he could control the trains. Whenever we visited, my sisters and I would spend hours watching the little electric trains zoom around, through the tunnels, over the bridges.
My grandpa died last year, so he isn't around to play with us anymore. My grandma is selling the trains to antique shops. She'll eventually tear down my grandpa's little paper-machied world, just because she needs the room for all her gardening supplies. But I will never forget the train room and how much I would look forward to just sitting in there and laughing and watching these little train models zoom around at 3 miles an hour.
That's my favorite place. *sigh* hehe, I wish I had pictures, but I don't.
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