Each of the kids took some spending money to the toy shop the other day. The girls chose some Playmobil: Exile #4's being a wedding set (complete with bride, groom and cake) and Exile #3's a NICU cot with baby and doctor. Meanwhile, E5N1 chose these frankly wonderful items - a pull-back action "New Beetle" and a replica 1940's tin friction-motored spy-plane.
What all this says about them I'm not sure - except that E5N1 is definitely a boy!
The girls got the spending bug however and a few days later they counted the combination of money from both their pocket money savings and decided they needed to go back to the shop for another Playmobil set. This piano player set was what they chose. Unfortunately, although the whole thing was every bit as cute as it looks, the electrical element of the piano did not work. It therefore fell to me to return with the girls on a rather rainy Sunday morning to see what could be done. So off we went to The Toymaker at Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany where they first tried to succeed where we had failed, then got another from the shelf and opened it, found that did not work either. After a lot of confused turning of it over and over looking for a switch or something that we had all missed, finally took down a third one and after a moment of battery-fitting we were regaled with a rendition of the wedding march. Cue cheers, happy kids, happy me and a plug for a place with exceptional customer service - even on a rainy Sunday morning.
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