My friend Renee's daughter works in downtown Dallas so the two of us decided we'd go and have lunch with her today. Sounds easy right?? Well, we thought that taking the new DART train would be a good idea so off we go on our adventure this morning after my crosswalk. When we got to the nearest station in Carrollton we discovered that the train was not a train at all...yet! It was a bus!! (The train opens in December) Well, we were not deterred!! We were on an adventure and nothing would stop us. So we waited till our bus arrived and confidently stepped on (not having a clue what we were doing!). I had thoroughly researched schedules and fares and knew that we had to have $4 each for an all day ticket. Renee put the required $8 in the slot and the driver looked at us expectantly...and told us it would be $5 each, that it was the express ticket, not the local one. Ohhhhhh, the express ticket.....of course, what were we thinking??? While the driver waited and the riders behind us waited we began to dig!! We had apparently spent our last $1 bills and there were no more to be had no matter how much we wanted there to be. Thankfully our driver understands newbies like us and told us he'd take what we could find. Renee finally found $1 and the rest (about 73 linty cents) came from the bottom of our purses It was enough to get us our tickets though so off we went on the rest of our adventure....on the bus, mind you!! On the way, there was a wreck and stalled traffic so as we deboarded our bus downtown we spotted the train we were supposed to catch zip by! After a phone call to DART (I'm not sure but I think she was snickering!) we were able to hop on the right train and arrived at our destination six blocks later! Yep, we got to ride the DART train....for six blocks! But our lunch with Julie was a success and really, the whole event was just pretty much a typical day for Renee and me! I wish I had a picture but I have no camera at the moment. I left it in McKinney last weekend and am hoping to retrieve it soon.
