We took a ride on the NEW Light Rail on Sunday afternoon. It was a lot of fun. Baylen was not a good traveler on the train, but we took turns wrestling with him all the way downtown. Brynn was in Heaven. I asked her if she wanted to go ride on a train that we ride "up in the sky" and she was sold. We did some shopping downtown, which we haven't done in awhile and really enjoyed ourselves. We grabbed a bit to eat at PF Chang's first, and the kids were difficult throughout the lunch. Baylen is getting to the age where he is so hard to take out in public b/c he's so unpredictable and generally awful at restaurants especially if he decides that day he's not going to eat anything that we put in front of him. It's a stage and I know we'll get through it, but it drives me crazy and it's very frustrating. The rest of the trip shopping around, he was great...slept a bit of it and then rode in the stroller like a champ...so I think really he was super tired.
Pros of the NEW Light Rail:
-it just opened 2 weeks ago
-it makes 10 stops total
-we can ride it to M's baseball games
-eventually it will run from the airport all the way downtown
-we can ride it downtown to the Pike St. market or to the bars on Pioneer Square
-we can ride it to see shows at the Paramount
-we can ride it to get to the Monorail, which will take us to Seattle Center
-we don't have to drive around to find expensive parking and it's cheaper to ride the LR
-kids 6 and under ride free
-trains come every 10 minutes and run every day of the week until 1 a.m.
-it's eco-friendly
5 comments:
Ahh, the advantages of living in a bigger city. We have absolutely nothing like that around here. I'm in a city, but not that big of a city! How fun to be that close to all the attractions and have an easy way to get there too.
I think this sounds awesome. Light rail is a BIG controversy here, some want it, others don't. I definitely think as a big city we need something.
PS - I so hear you on the restaurants. We don't even try the battle half the time...plus he will never eat what we get him anymore. The food battle is a daily battle, sigh!
The light rail sounds so cool! We have poor public transportation here, nothing that cool. It would be nice to have something between CR and IC but that is always a debate, sounds like kati's city has the same fight but KC is way bigger than CR.
As for food, We have the same food battle! I cannot get him to eat veggies. He is so picky so I pack his food when we go out, like fruit, cheese, crackers and milk or water because the child is stubburn!!! He is good for the most part in restaurants but he is not good when we go out other places, he always wants to run and run and does not want to sit in cart or stroller for now.
That's awesome that you have a Light Rail. And yum to PF Changs.
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