A Beautiful Wednesday Morning

I love the morning. I really do. Except for it being in the morning, I love the morning. Now that our mornings are cooling off here in the Phoenix area, it's great to roll down the windows, turn up the music and drive. I've been an avid Cars Collector for awhile now. Seems like about 2 years I guess. It's hard to remember when I bought my first Car. My son was probably almost a year old. I remember going into a KB Toys and finding the blister packs hanging on the pegs. I checked them out and or course, bought a Lightening McQueen. I was checking out the back of the card and decided that for Carter to really have fun playing with the cars, he would need all of them. And so the obsession started. Here we are 2 years later and I'm still obsessed with those little die-casts. I love them. They remind me of when I was a little kid collecting Matchbox. Back in the day. They came in little boxes, made in England. The quality was unbelievable by todays standards. I can remember going to the toy store with my parents and getting to pick out 1 Matchbox to take home. I remember my green carrying case that had what seemed like hundreds of cars in it (more likely 30) and I remember PLAYING with them all the time. My brother and I would use our wooden blocks and build city schemes. We had ramps, garages and all sorts of cool places. Even though they were all made from wooden blocks, we could imagine whatever we wanted. We had such a blast. Then came Hot Wheels. I think by the time I left for college, my parents house had a huge box, probably 3 X 3 full of orange Hot Wheels track, cars and all sorts of related stuff. Including Sizzlers. Does anyone remember those? O.M.G. I remember when they came out, little cars that actually ran by themselves. Plug them into this little filling station for a minute, turn it on and let it go. We would race those Sizzlers for hours. There were the upgrades, white tires that had more stick. Faster engines. Man was that cool. On one of my recent trips through Target I noticed Sizzlers. I could not believe it. Will my son have the same interest in toy cars that I had when I was growing up? Hard to say really. He's almost 3 and loves EVERYTHING Cars. So at this point, I would say yes. But a lot can happen so I'll just wait an see. He'll have a complete, mint set of Cars waiting for him if he wants it when he gets older. But for now, he's content with playing with the 40 or so Cars that we've opened. Nothing can describe the joy of watching him laying on the floor driving his cars around and making Vroom Vroom sounds. Happy hunting.