Tempe Train Day

These days, it seems like we manage to be busy all the time.  I love having full days, but then again, sometimes it would be nice just to not have anything at all to do.  Even weekends in our house can be hectic.  It’s a different kind of hectic, like we need to really rush around just to make sure we’re done with breakfast by 11 or whatever, so that we can eventually have lunch and naps and fit the regular routine stuff into the day.  Somehow, even losing a couple extra hours to sleep in on Saturdays can make you feel behind the 8 ball for the rest of the day, even when you aren’t trying to accomplish anything.  So in the rare event that we can manage to steal a couple hours to burn as a family, one of our favorite ways to spend it is by taking the Lightrail train down to Mill Ave. and seeing what “city life” (Tempe, that is) has to offer our little brood.

We did this one of these January weekends, and we might have given up altogether on naps in the process, but it was worth it.  Breaks from the norm are most definitely an essential component to maintaining mental health… speaking for myself.

After disembarking the train, we went to Tempe Town Lake to pounce around, and then we ate lunch at Five Guys burger joint with Marci and Leah.  I am so grateful to have my sisters.  They are truly my best friends, and I don’t have a clue what I’d do without them. 

I used Lightroom on a couple of my photos this time, so the series doesn’t look uniform but I was just experimenting.  Which photos do you think look the best?