Public Transportation

Our great friends from CA (Agustin & Christina) traditionally come visit for New Year's and 4th of July. They are a sweet family of four like us and even have two boys that get to be "little brothers" to Tyler and Brandon for a week. Every year we have more fun and have some adventure to remember the visit by. We did our usual card playing, staying up too late, making up goofy phrases but this year we kicked it up a notch and participated in PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION as our adventure to remember! What an experience we had on the brand new light rail in Mesa. The light rail was looking to get large public interest so they had free rides for everyone for the first few days. We decided to take them up on this free offer (along with all the other cheapos) and rode the light rail to downtown Phoenix and enjoyed dinner at the Chase Field Friday's Front Row restaurant. The adventure begins as we enter the "train" and they pack us in tight. We are now rubbing elbows with all walks of life. We had our token crazies, obnoxious loud talkers, coughing with tuberculosis people all loaded up with us and that was just on the outbound trip!! We did enjoy a nice dinner and then got back on the train for the return trip. Dear Christina had to sit next to a homeless man who wore a mask and made ticking noises. This was of course hilarious to all except Christina who was freaking out! She said that was more adventurous then she really bargained for!! We'll have to try to find another more mundane adventure for their next visit.

We are walking innocently toward the infamous train.

Christina is still smiling but thinking this might not have been such a good idea.

The peace of the restaurant and our friends were the highlight of the night!