How long am I going to be on this train?

The day after Thanksgiving is known as "Black Friday". It is the time when the majority of America goes shopping and the shops go back in the "black". Needless to say I wasn't going to be that daft so I decided today would be a good day to stay off the road and take the train. Alexander and I went to San Francisco for the day to catch a movie- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (a children's movie, sadly for me, almost completely devoid of plot). For sure we could have seen it 1/2 a mile down the road from our house but I decided that the journey on the train would be a fun way to spend the day. Unfortunately we were late heading up to the city and the train we got stopped at every station on the line. Alexander was somewhat unamused, especially at actually having to walk a mile or so to the movie theatre from the railroad station. "Why do we always have to walk everywhere Daddy?" Still he perked up a bit when we got there and had candy and soda in the movie theatre.

A day at the zoo

The day after Halloween is a dark day indeed. It's the day the children sit down and eat their candy in earnest. Sugar rush gives way to negative hypoglycemia and your furry little darling turns in nasty a little gremlin!
The schoolteachers of America are well versed in this phenomenon and now annually declare the day after Halloween a "teacher training day" meaning that they can close the school and make your little gremlin your little problem.
We decided the best way to deal with this years impending storms was plenty of down time in the car so we took the kids to the zoo in San Francisco. Fiona had never been to a zoo full of wild animals but like Alexander when he was that age, she was completely unfazed by the experience because at that age why shouldn't you round a corner and see giraffe. All things are both possible and probable when you are less than that 2.

All in the animals took a bit of a back seat compared to the swings and roundabouts, but that was ok. The main thing was we got through the day as a family.

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