Bunchin's first picnic!

Bunchin is eating, sleeping and living um tak tak(train). He goes to the viewing point on the bridge definitely once during the day.But he is doing nama smaranam of um tak tak almost non stop. Each time he says um tak tak D has to give some information about the train.He cant have enough.

Thatha has been advocating that a visit to a nearby railway station will be a good progression. D was thinking about it. It happened that a friend of theirs also having a child of Bunchin's age had a similar notion to take her son to the rail station nearby.So they got together and planned for a picnic today.

Usually their sleep schedules and mother's other daily schedules do not synchronise. But today it did.So armed with a box full of fresh grapes and a water bottle, the two mothers and their toddlers marched out of the campus. It is a short distance to the rail station.They did the final lap from the bridge down to the station quite comfortably. The kids were excited and trying to put in words all the thoughts going in their heads. But vocabulary being limited, were gesticulating and making all sorts of sounds to their moms. After a while a passenger train trundled into the station quite leisurely. They were all eyes and kept seeing bogie after bogie without getting fatigued. The train stood in the station for a while and the mom's being the smart alecs that they are, used the time to feed them all the grapes that they had brought. Days are getting hot in Guwahati, so water was also consumed without any hassle while they were gaping at the passenger train.

They were as excited when the train hooted and slowly left the station. It is a very small station.They were told, no other train was expected in the next couple of hours.So the kids fooled around the place and were coaxed and coerced to get back home.

Bunchin is a person in a hurry and the other boy is a shy, retiring type. The mothers are good friends and wished that these two also bond together. This picnic sort of paved the way for a bridging the gap, so to say.

Bring on more picnics I say!