Downtown SLC Adventure

This past Friday Scott was off at a decent time so I thought we could do the aquarium or the zoo after Charlotte's nap. Of course the punk takes forever to go down for her nap so we were unable to do either. But I still had a couple shirts I needed to exchange at Baby Gap. My mom had accidentally bought her 3T when she needs 4T. Since there are only 2 Gaps that are somewhat close we decided on City Creek over Fashion Place. We parked closer to Gateway and now that we are becoming more familiar with Trax and the free fare zone, we decided we'd ride that over to City Creek so Charlotte could ride the train. We thought that would be our little adventure for the evening. 


The dude just chilling waiting for the train.

This bldg was across from our car and the station we started at. It was just a cool old bldg so I took a picture.

I could not get Charlotte to leave this poor tree alone. She kept picking at the bark.

So when the train pulled up it was the blue line and they had these crazy steep stairs and I was not about to haul the stroller up so we were going to wait for the next train. But it seemed like it was taking forever and we thought we'd just walk to the next stop and catch it there. Wrong. It took us longer to walk than we thought so then we were stuck waiting a while. Charlotte's legs were already getting tired. So I thought I'd snag a picture of these two cuties. My husband is such a stud. At least I think so :)

Here's the happy dude while we're waiting. He's almost always super smiley. Except when he's hungry or if he loses his toys now

Charlotte wanted to sit by herself. She thought she was pretty hot stuff riding the train. She kept telling us which pole to hold on to. Punk.

Everything started out okay but then it seemed like a waste of a trip because the genius working there really didn't help me out at all. I told him I just needed to exchange the sizes. So he's trying to look the stuff up in the computer and struggling. Then checks it all in. Then he goes to find the same tops in a bigger size and all of a sudden he's ringing me up. I look at him confused and I was like, I just wanted to exchange these sizes. Then he tells me he returned it to my card. Then I told him I didn't pay for them. My mom had and she told me to just exchange the sizes. So the money was put back on her card and he expected me to pay for them. I told him I couldn't that's why I was exchanging the sizes. I had no money in our account. It was like $16 something for these two shirts and I had a buck something. Not gonna work. Thanks genius. So I left the store empty handed feeling like I wasted some expensive gas to drive all the way downtown. Lame!

At this point we were waiting for the train to go back to our car and Jackson had been super patient up to this point. I got him out and was holding him and had Scott snap a pic.

Of course that darn blue line came first so we waited for the green line. Just for ease of hauling. When the train came Charlotte was running like a maniac getting on and Scott's trying to go after her and I'm holding Jackson trying to get the stroller up the little step onto the train. Then this really nice guy lifts the stroller up for me and gets it on the train. I thanked him a few times. That was super nice of him. He said not a problem and he had a couple kids of his own so he understood. So thankful for people like that to make your day just a little bit brighter. The train ride back had 3 stops then we got off at the 4th. Charlotte switched spots every stop. She was just loving the train ride back. Although I was super disappointed with the waste of time that Gap was it was fun to see Charlotte have so much fun on the train. I guess it wasn't all wasted. At least we got to do something as a family.