The last couple days have been interesting. Okay maybe just yesterday...we decided to take the light rail into downtown LA and had the most varied day. Sherri and her kids tagged along which made the trip very memorable for them and us. Picturey goodness later.
To sum up in a nutshell, we saw 'crazies', homeless, the pimped out, tourists, and barfing. With gas prices so high, we went to the Park n Ride by LAX and the lot was FULL! Hector was surprised but I wasn't....cars were parked in spaces that weren't spaces so it was a challenge for us. Luckily we have a super secret parking weapon and also Hector was driving which gives us added parking karma. Shhh.
The train ride to downtown was uneventful except for a very loud, vocal woman in our car who proceeded to yell and cuss at anyone she saw fit. Yikes. There are young children aboard. This person had to get off the same time as us (of course) and I saw her say something to Sherri as she was holding Amber. According to Sherri, the woman said, "Take care of your baby, don't kill her because I'm a beautiful black woman." WTF? This happened as we transferring to the green line so she disappeared (thankfully) to another car.
We rode the train to Union Station where it is still maintained in its original design (I think) and on we went to Olvera St. where we had all the kids pose for the touristy photo with a donkey (fake), sombreros and serapes (?). The first pose came out the best so of course we had to get it. I need to get it scanned to show but I have a poor picture of the picture.
We had lunch at some restaurant and the best part was the huge margarita I shared with Hector and the chips and salsa. The service was extraordinarily slooooow so the kids got full eating Goldfish and their drinks. Oh well, the food was just okay.
Most of time was wasted at the restaurant so we wound things up by stopping by Mr Churro which everyone enjoyed. Of course we try to eat at this nice open plaza area and found a place for the kids to sit. That didn't last long when Hector alerted me to the homeless drunk man sitting 6 feet away from us was throwing up. Ugh. Time to move. And head back to the train.
We saw some unusual characters like the man all 'pimped out' in a coat with leopard lapels, fedora strutting around. I guess the pimpmobile used too much gas. The train ride seemed to take longer getting back especially when the train would make a scheduled stop and we'd sit there for about 5 minutes, go to the next stop and wait another 5 minutes. this happened for the 3 stops right before our stop so we were all hot and tired.
Overall, we had a fun time with some local flavor thrown in. But I don't think we need to do this again for a long time! :P
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