Einar's Mom has been a Slacker

Sorry that I've been such a slacker this week when it comes to posting the adventures of Einar. On Wednesday, Einar and I went to Los Angeles on the MetroLink train with our visiting neighbor-friend, Linda. We left our house at 6:30AM (!!!!!--much earlier than Einar and I are normally out of the house) to catch the 7:04 train. After 7 there doesn't seem to be another train until later in the afternoon. For $20 round-trip we rode the train from San Clemente into Los Angeles Union Station which was about 1.5 hours away. Then our tickets enabled us to take the busses and subways anywhere in the city all day as well. One interesting thing is that the only time that our tickets seemed needed was when we rode a bus. Other than that, no one even made sure that we had them! The train was nice.

Los Angeles was really kind of seedy. We got there about an hour before any of the stores were really open. Our first stop was Hollywood Blvd. We stopped first at a Starbucks for some coffee and where Einar had his banana-yogurt-rice cereal combo for his breakfast. Then we walked down to see the Kodak theater and the Chinese theater. There is a mall there as well that we checked out. I did buy a new onesie for Einar that I had customized to say "free tickles" on the front of it. The other night, Jared was saying that he should have a t-shirt that had that on the front since it is so much fun tickling the little guy. I would have included a picture of it on him, but I bought the 24 month size and he has just a bit of growing to do in order for it to fit.

We then went for a walk and eventually headed downtown again where we ate lunch. It was all quite an adventure and the little guy was super tired on the ride home and slept all night once we got home!

Today was just a day at home with some book reading for both of us, table finishing and dinner cooking. Not much happening tonight either. We all took a shower after dinner and then Einar went to bed. Jared is being a snoozing couch potato tonight after a long day at work. He was at work by 6 am this morning for a barracks inspection. Thank goodness he wasn't inspecting our barracks since I need to vaccuum and put away a load of laundry.