Kids are funny. They haven't spent much time on this earth to understand how things work and wonder from the ages of 1-12 how life works in general. They're imagination can spark from anything around them from cartoons they watch on television to children's book, even video games. Yes, even video games can spark a child's imagination. I had a whole week of four little boys watching me play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

This Christmas my aunt and cousins came over to my grandpa's house in New York City. We do this every year and I love spending time with my dad's family overall. Out of everyone in the family I really love my cousins. They come from a very semi strict family, but my aunt makes them have little fun time to time. I really love the fact that ever since August saw me pull out my DSlite to play Phantom Hourglass he's been into video games ever since. Well this Christmas I wanted to introduce my old Nitnendo 64 to my cousins and show them how other Zelda games looked like back in the day. I went up stairs to the top floor of the house to plug in the Nintendo 64 and when I got to the top floor my cousins seems very interested in the old N64. Asking a funny question, "Is this a bigger DS?"

Well once to turn on the N64 and put in Ocarina of Time I saw there eyes looking around the screen and then looking at me trying to come up with what questions to ask me. First off I must say it's funny how even till this day Zelda games will be scary to young children. August was really scared when the Skeletons came out at night and jump at Link. Overall he was more scared of the redeads then anything else in the game. However for some reason he wasn't all to interested in Ocarina of Time, but showed more interest in Majora's Mask. I think that reason was because he would look at the Majora's Mask t-shirt I would wear around him every time I would see him. He ask who was who and on going questions about the skull kid and Deku srubs.

After playing Ocarina of Time for about an hour I told my cousins we had to do something else, since their parents don't really want them playing video games for hours. So August just started playing with his brother about pretending to be redeads and one of them had to be Link. Even my uncles who are six and eight years old walked in on them playing the Zelda game and wanted to join in on the fun. SO for about two hours I had to watch four little boys pretend to be Deku srubs,redeads,Links, and other Zelda related characters. Seriously the things children come up with when video games are involved are so funny.

I was secretly very happy that they got into the Zelda series. I even went down to Nintendo World and got both of them Zelda T-shirts. Which they didn't take off for the next three days. I also got them Zelda manga series of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. August read Majora's Mask within a day and moved on to Ocarina of Time manga.

On one last note to end this my younger cousin Gabriel asked me why Link never talks. To which I answer "Well....Link has nothing really to say and Nintendo made him that way" and he kpet asking me why after that a few times. Looking at them playing Zelda games and pretending to Link brings me back when I got into the whole world of Zelda series. What even makes me more happy is finally having someone in the family I can relate on my favorite video game series.

And here a cute video I took with my iPhone of my cousins doing their best Link impressions.