Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

Brother drove down this weekend and i got to spend the day with him! It was really great to see him. While he was here we took a little drive down memory lane, and wow have things changed. I know things have to change, adapt, grow.... conform to the times and all- but for some reason it feels like things from my childhood are exempt. Like they shouldn't be allowed to change or something.

Our childhood park is a construction zone, our tiny little library now looks like a shopping mall, and the Cinderella pumpkin carriage we were so fond of is gone. We drove by the duplex we used to live in and a pile of things were scattered on the driveway with a sign stating "Everything Free!" College students don't walk away from anything free, and so we indulged.

Among the freebies I found this wonderful hat,

Which Brother then wore around all day,... to lunch,.... and then, fittingly, while watching Police Academy 6

We went to lunch at a restaurant that we used to go to as children, Shivers and Shakes... And wow was everything bigger when we were children. The train that ran around the walls shrunk, the burgers shrunk, the shakes shrunk, and......

The train we used to sit in to eat our BIG burgers and BIG Shakes definitely shrunk.

Eating in the train was much more exciting when we were 6 and 8.

I guess change is inevitable, but somethings just shouldn't be allowed to change. I guess that's why they invented cameras, and mothers are so fond of scrapbooks, huh?



.Ramzi