The Gateway Adventure

After working around the house yesterday we decided to have a little adventure today - we thought we would ride the trax train downtown to the Gateway (shopping and dining area) and let Sadie play in the fountains that they have there. We hopped in the car and drove down to the station. There was a train there all ready to go but wouldn't you know it - as soon as we got our tickets it took off. Oh well, we just waited around for about ten or fifteen minutes for the next train. We finally boarded the train and were on our way untill...about 6 blocks from the Gateway our train broke down completely. We decided we didn't want to wait around so we decided to walk. Sadie did great, she walked most of the way and rode on her daddy's back for a few blocks. We decided to cut across Pioneer Park - sounds like a nice plan except that Pioneer park has not been a nice family park for quite some time now. It belongs to the homeless and sometimes shady characters. We had no problems though and even had a man apologize for swearing in front of us (all he said was ass). Finally we got to the Gateway. Sadie was a bit squimish around the fountains this time for some reason but she had fun. She had her swimsuit on and got soaking wet. Jim and I did not have our swimsuits on and got a bit wet as well. But with it being close to 90* out we didn't mind. After drying off we went and looked around a bit in the book store and then ate dinner outside at the Skybox restaurant. A quick trip into Dick's sporting goods and then we were back on the train for home. I'm happy to report no problems with our train on the way back home. Quite a fun little adventure for a Sunday afternoon!