The train ride

Q: What do Disney princesses, ballerinas, mermaids, bunnies, and the folks from the Nativity have to do with each other?
A: They were all riding the train together today. Here they are, en route to various destinations:


While it seems that Emily the mermaid passed the time by reading through a Vivaldi flute concerto, the other passengers conversed amongst themselves. Here are excerpts of what went down with the train gang:

ME: Where are all those people going?
JULIA: They're going to lands.
ME: What kind of lands?
JULIA: Like, Storyland.

She then turned her attention back to her game and to the show-down that was about to occur between Belle and Ariel and their jealous mother:

BELLE AND ARIEL: Mother, what are you doing on this train?
JASMINE (aka THE JEALOUS MOTHER): I just got on this train. I was worried that you'd be scared without your mommy!
BELLE AND ARIEL: Oh.
JASMINE: And look at all these other people, they look so happy!

The happiness was disturbed, however, when Jack and his mother Reela tried to get on the train. Thinking they had found the perfect seat, they had no idea what kind of mischief they were about to cause:

JACK: Here's a nice spot!
REELA: No, we sit over here. (accidentally knocking Jasmine off the piano)
JASMINE: Hey! You knocked me off, little fool!

So poor Jack and his little fool of a mother had to move to different seats, but thankfully, Jasmine's stop was coming up and she would be out of their hair:

JASMINE: Get off MY stop!
BELLE: Because we're leaving the train to go to Storyland.
Here are Jasmine and her two daughters at Storyland:


Next to depart the train were Max and Ruby, who were on their way to see their grandma. Here they are having fun at Grandma's house:


The next two to leave were Fauna and Ballerina. :
FAUNA: Get off the train, Ballerina! It's your stop to go to Ballerina's Best Take-Shot!
ME: Ballerina's Best Take-Shot, huh?
JULIA: Uh, Mommy, it's really called Ballerina's DANCE and SING.

Here they are at the dance and sing:


The manger people were amongst the last to depart. I became curious about their destination:

ME: Where are the manger people going?
JULIA: Uh... to Jack-o-lantern land.
ME: What do you do in Jack-o-lantern land.
JULIA: Um, well, you learn how to carve a Jack-o-lantern.

I'll bet they loved it.

Meanwhile, Madeleine must have decided that there weren't enough toys out and about during the hubbub of the train ride, because she seemed set on pulling out every single book from the bookshelf to flip through:



Hey, at least the kids are good at entertaining themselves!