When I was really little, my favourite thing to do was play with dolls. But my little sis, Annie, preferred playing with her toy cars. I would
watch her play for hours on end, driving those cars around the imaginary carpet
town and, I must admit, I never really got what made it so great. My dolls could be doctors,
teachers or princesses with just the change of a costume, but what kind of
stories could people who could never leave their cars tell?
Time went by and I never bothered asking, and eventually I forgot all
about it. Then one day, I was sitting at home watching Cars, and as the opening scene
flashed across the screen, it clicked. Of course it wasn’t the people
inside of the cars that my sis was directing in her playtime stories… It was
cars themselves! Call me crazy, but I didn’t get it until then.
We built our favourite characters (mine: Guido, hers: Fillmore) and set
out the giant fold-out mat complete with tons of cool peel-and-stick stickers
to customize our cars with. We whizzed and zoomed around the racetrack on
one side, then flipped it over to ride around Radiator Springs, stopping at all
our favourite spots, like Tow Mater and Casa Della Tires. And when the fun was all
done, we parked our cars in the cool pop-out garage to rest.
This year, think outside the box
when picking presents for your family and friends, because you never know what
someone will get out of it. This year, my sister gave me a new way to play and
that’s a pretty great gift if you ask me!
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