{"id":2202,"date":"2008-07-27T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T02:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2008-07-27T21:13:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T02:13:58","slug":"el-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/el-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"El adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy and Papa had a special &#8220;staycation&#8221; adventure yesterday: we took Lucy&#8217;s first Chicago El ride. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like Grandpa Boyd and Uncle Vincie, Lucy &#8220;loves&#8221;:\/news\/2008\/red-engine\/ &#8220;trains&#8221;:\/news\/2006\/all-aboard\/, and we&#8217;ve been talking about riding one for a while. We&#8217;ve been on CTA buses, but never yet the El. And gracious me, _why not?_ It was time to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>So we biked down to our stop (Kimball), paid Papa&#8217;s fare, and took our seat at the very front of the first car. We rode only as far as Montrose, and as the true extrovert that she is, Lucy was much more interested in studying and greeting the people sharing our car than in looking out the window.<\/p>\n<p>At Montrose, we descended all the stairs and reascended on the other side of the platform (Lucy taking each step herself) for the return trip. But this time, we got off at Western, in Lincoln Square, for a stop-over at the &#8220;Lincoln Quality Meat Market&#8221;:http:\/\/www.lincolnqualitymeatmarket.com\/ to pick up some salami and corned beef for a picnic lunch. (And we couldn&#8217;t resist a brace of white, German-style veal bratwurst while we were at it!) And then the friendly guys at &#8220;Potbelly&#8217;s&#8221;:http:\/\/www.potbelly.com\/searchresultsnew.asp?txtZip=60625 made us one of their world-class chocolate malts even though they weren&#8217;t open yet. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4884.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_4884\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4884.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4884-128x96.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back on the station platform, we waited, and waited, and waited some more for our train. (Over half an hour, in the end.) That was less fun &#8212; though truth be told, Lucy didn&#8217;t seem to mind one bit, with so many interesting things to see, especially looking down on the Western Avenue traffic right under her feet.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4879.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_4879\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4879.jpg 225w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4879-96x128.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We watched a southbound train come and go (which worried Lucy a little, with how loud it was).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4874.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_4874\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4874.jpg 225w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4874-96x128.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But mostly we just had a blast. Ever since, Lucy has been asking to &#8220;pray for the trains&#8221; at nap- and bedtime. So we have been doing just that: thanking God for the wonderful trains and how they serve so many people so well, asking for skill and safety for all the people who keep them running.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll look forward to the next ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy and Papa had a special &#8220;staycation&#8221; adventure yesterday: we took Lucy&#8217;s first Chicago El ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}