Our Adventures: Down in the T.

I've been at a two day conference downtown this week and it feels like I've been to Mars and back. Being downtown in the city is like entering your own twilight zone. Complete with pink hair, long stringy things hanging from everyone's ears, and sharp spiky things on people's feet. I decided to be "eco" and took the train downtown - okay maybe not so eco as much as wanted to save 2 hours of sitting in traffic...... I'd like to think I managed to pull off the impression that I was an "experienced" train and downtowner but somehow I don't think I quite got there.
My experience went something like this:
I didn't really know where I was going after I got off the train. The train stops in a covered area where you descend down the stairs. I'm thinking to myself - Down the stairs? To where?! I think it's suppose to be to the underground PATH, but it seemed more like descending into an underground city. I was brave (my first mistake). I thought I could just kind of go with the flow (and what I mean is the traffic flow) and hope that everyone was headed to the convention centre - which is where my ultimate destination was. Not so much. I was pushed and shoved and guided along against my will until I realized I was in the depths of the underground with no hint of the surface anywhere. 30 minutes later, I managed to find an exit to the outside world and surfaced 6 blocks from where I needed to be and proceeded to heel toe my way to my destination.
Such an eye opener. We don't live far from the city, but we are far from city people. I remember breathing a sigh of relief when I got off the train and drove my car home and passed a farm, a hay field, and a school with a playground that had grass. My brushes with the T. are small and limited and I'm happy about that.
TD tower, Yonge and Eg, Eaton Centre, and Yorkdale have nothing on my little community.
Know what I found when I drove into the driveway after surviving my two days of train, pedestrian traffic, and utter chaos? My dog, my man and my girl hang'n out on the front lawn raking and digging in the dirt.
I gotta love life.....

Rowyn and I at Easter dinner at my Mom and Dad's house.