Hop on the Bus Gus
No updates for months and now I'm posting on two consecutive days?!?!? What is going on?
For months Darcy has been asking us to take a ride on the city bus. She rides the school bus daily and has ridden the city bus in Montreal but not in Windsor. For some reason she really wanted to take a ride on the city bus.
Yesterday I took the kids to the mall before Nick got home from Toronto. There's a bus terminal in area where usually park and she started in about the bus ride again. Then Wesley started too. He wanted to get on the bus right then. I knew Nick had a stack of bus tickets at home that he won't be using before we move so we came up with the plan of taking a bus ride together today.
So we had two very excited kids this morning, anxious for their first ride on the bus. We waited in the rain and finally the bus came (5 minutes late, just as you would expect from Windsor transit). I wish you could have seen the look of pure joy on Wesley's face as he sat on the bus. He was positively gleeful. Darcy wanted to stand and was busy looking at all the people and all the sights we were passing. She even made friends with the lady sitting beside her.
We did a bit of shopping at the mall and then boarded the bus for the ride home. There had been an accident with the bus before ours so at one point we had to stop to let the passengers from the damaged bus get on our bus too. I had told Darcy on the way home that she would be able to ring the bell to tell the driver when we needed to stop so of course she kept asking me every 10 seconds if it was time to ring the bell yet. Finally she got to ring the bell and our bus ride came to and end.
Who would have thought that something as simple as a bus ride would make them so excited? Wesley kept yelling, "Bye Bus!" as we walked back up our street. He was thrilled. Darcy is thrilled at the prospect of riding the bus more frequently when we get to Ottawa. What funny kids. For our part it was a cheap way of keeping them entertained on a rainy Saturday morning!
For months Darcy has been asking us to take a ride on the city bus. She rides the school bus daily and has ridden the city bus in Montreal but not in Windsor. For some reason she really wanted to take a ride on the city bus.
Yesterday I took the kids to the mall before Nick got home from Toronto. There's a bus terminal in area where usually park and she started in about the bus ride again. Then Wesley started too. He wanted to get on the bus right then. I knew Nick had a stack of bus tickets at home that he won't be using before we move so we came up with the plan of taking a bus ride together today.
So we had two very excited kids this morning, anxious for their first ride on the bus. We waited in the rain and finally the bus came (5 minutes late, just as you would expect from Windsor transit). I wish you could have seen the look of pure joy on Wesley's face as he sat on the bus. He was positively gleeful. Darcy wanted to stand and was busy looking at all the people and all the sights we were passing. She even made friends with the lady sitting beside her.
We did a bit of shopping at the mall and then boarded the bus for the ride home. There had been an accident with the bus before ours so at one point we had to stop to let the passengers from the damaged bus get on our bus too. I had told Darcy on the way home that she would be able to ring the bell to tell the driver when we needed to stop so of course she kept asking me every 10 seconds if it was time to ring the bell yet. Finally she got to ring the bell and our bus ride came to and end.
Who would have thought that something as simple as a bus ride would make them so excited? Wesley kept yelling, "Bye Bus!" as we walked back up our street. He was thrilled. Darcy is thrilled at the prospect of riding the bus more frequently when we get to Ottawa. What funny kids. For our part it was a cheap way of keeping them entertained on a rainy Saturday morning!
posted by Sue Matthews at 8:29 PM
1 Comments:
I started to read your blog a little while ago. I think I just accidentally came across it one day and I'm glad I did. Unlike facebook, it will give a more detailed account of what's happening in your new home after you move. I'm looking forward to reading more!
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