quite an adventure

So Fridays are intended to be our go out and do it type things.  Fieldtrips or whatever.  This week we took the public bus to the downtown library.  I thought it would be a great opporunity to have Big X count money so we could have exact change.  Help plan our route (used the map online) and also he could determine where to go.  It was decided by me that taking bus 16 would be a good choice.  We could drop off the car at the mall then take the whole route around (library is the last stop) and it would be loads of fun.  We got on in the nick of time just has they were starting to close the doors.  The kids clung closesly to me as I explained the different parts of the bus and pointed out things outside that perhaps they hadn't notice from this new perspective. Big X got to pull the cord when it was time to stop.  We get out and there is some sort of "issue" arising on the steps of the main enterance of the library.  A women was chaced up not the steps by a number of police officers and several do-gooders standing around incase she tried to run again.  So we decided to go for a hot chocolate down the road and come back a half hour later.  So we go back, cops still there, but they allowed us to pass to go inside.  We wait.  Lots of people come in and wait too.  They keep checking the doors.  More kids arrive and wait.  Finally someone states that there is a small sign on the outer door saying on Friday's the library opens late at 11am!!!!!!!!!!!  So here's something like 30 people waiting at 10am and its the one day they open late.  The one day we take the bus.   Rather than wait an hour for the next bus to come get us, we talked the four blocks to the bus station and waited a while there finding a bus that would get us back to our vehicle.  I like having a car.