Today's Sunshine

Today we walked over to another village a couple of miles off, to hang out by their (teeny-tiny) train station. Monster watched as children raced around shouting and hitting each other with school bags; as rail workers waved signs, clanged tools, drove ATVs, and shouted; as bikes drove by; as dogs walked past; as life went on around us, basically. We weren't close, we were several hundred feet away from the platform. But we were only about 20 feet away from the path leading up to it, and people and even some dogs did pass us by while we stood there (discretely lurking in the bushes, I'm sure to everyone's delight...) - and while Monster was at times very interested, he never broke. Not once did he act out, his strongest reaction was to a dog trotting past - he craned his neck and sniffed the air vigorously, and even stepped in place a little with his front paws. In other words, it was awesome!

I wanna go again!