Metro Train Tour

Yesterday, the three family went out on a photo tour of the Metro. I had the idea that it would be neat to take pictures of the various stops for the Metro train as well as taking pictures of the trains, the stations, the turnstiles, the ticket selling machines, and so on. Armed with Daddy's camera, we went off on the tour. Click here to see the tour.

First stop, Dupont Circle. As you know, there's a really huge escalator in Dupont Circle. Amazingly, Nainnie went up and down this escalator a bunch of times when she came to visit us. Pictures 4-6 how the escalator. Picture 6 is a daredevil shot that Daddy took while sitting down on the escalator as we went down it.

Next, we came to the ticket vending machines. There are two types. The red ones only take cash while the blue ones take credit cards. Pictures 7 and 8 show these. I took picture 8 in a Daddy extreme photography pose. I more or less lay on my back in the Metro station (which Mommy thought was yucky) and shot up at the ticket machine.

Metro stations have lots of nifty turnstiles. Picture 9 shows me checking them out.

Next, we rode on the red line and transferred to the blue line at Metro center. Picture 10 shows the transfer point. Then we rode t L'Enfant plaza and switched again to the green line. This took us to Chinatown (picture 11). We roamed around Chinatown, but it was not as exciting as the Metro train. We went back into the Chinatown metro station. Picture 12 shows it. The rainbow thing in the back is a big lit-up Chinese fan piece of artwork.

We rode the red line back to Dupont Circle where we went up a different big escalator (pictures 13 and 14) before arriving at the top (picture 15). We stopped at the Dupont Circle fountain for a lollipop break (pictures 16 and 17) before heading home.

Sad postscript: We got home just in time to watch the Steelers lose a heartbreaker to the Falcons. Daddy and I were waving our "terrible socks" (really just my yellow socks) to try to help the Steelers.