Subway To Downtown

The Misers started their Monday morning like they start every morning: scouring various job sites online, calling their contacts, and doing their best to stay in the game. Some days are more productive than other, some days there is work to be done - it's not as though we frolic around town all week long with nothing to do but have a good time. (Not that any of you would think that...) But since we are The Misers, which is not very glamorous to say the least, we do spend a lot of time trying to remedy the situation. It's just not very interesting to write about, so that's all I'll say on that subject. In the meantime, we are actually eking out as much free/inexpensive fun as possible. Go Misers!

This afternoon, Sparky, Bee and I drove to the Santa Monica/Vermont Metro station, parked our car for free on a side street, and took the subway to Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for adults are $1.25 one way, which is way cheaper than parking downtown. The subway system in Los Angeles, although limited, is actually pretty great. Bee loved it, and said "bye" to everybody as we exited the train. We picnicked at the park, taking full advantage of the beautiful weather. Pershing Square was originally a gathering place during World War I, and was named after the WWI general. There is a lot of military statuary as well some public art work at this park, and during the winter holidays they have an outdoor ice skating rink. Down the block is the Central Library, which was our next stop. We went inside to look at the art hanging in the atrium. The  chandeliers by artist Therman Statom are spectacular, and Bee comments upon seeing them were "ooh, aah..." She quite enjoyed them and was blown away by the enormity of it all. Then we took her outside to see the fountains made by various artists such as Laddie John Dill. Bee loved them all. Show her running water and you can't lose. She even likes water just coming out of a plain old garden hose.  So the fountains were aces in her book. Then across the street we went to the Library Tower to see even more fountains! More running water! More sculpture! ("More" is Bee's number one word right now.) The one at the top of the steps, Source Figure, by artist Robert Graham is one of my all time favorite fountains. Bee especially liked the crabs frolicking about the bottom of the pedestal.

As it was getting close to rush hour, we decided it was time to go back to the subway and head home to beat the crush of commuters. That's the one good thing about this precious free time we have right now - we can do things in off hours and beat the crowd.

Sparky says, "Do not fret about money for I've seen from example that it does no good. Worry not. The maw of full time employment will have you in its jaws before you know it."