Public transport

We survived the first week of School Holidays. And we are mostly in good shape.

These are the holidays of the Great Public Transit expansion. The city is working on all the train and tram lines at once, it seems.

For the next week and a half, there will be no trams on the stretch of road in front of our house, while digging begins on a new train station that will be located just up the street.

And there are no trains running on my usual train line, while they move the rail lines high above the road to free up traffic congestion.

All these improvements will be lovely when they are eventually finished (a sign said 2026 for the new train station). But it is somewhat annoying to have all our usual transit routes unavailable all at the same time.

So what have we been doing about it? More walking.

Walking to shopping, walking to outings, walking. Lucky for us we are in good health. And the weather has been perfect -- not too hot, not too cold. Although with the recent time change the evenings are very dark again.

We will endure. Soon after Jonathan goes back to school for term 2, the trams will be running again.

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On Monday, we went to see the movie Ready Player One, and watched all the credits. This time, we found two people we know in them -- Collette and cousin Heidi! Way to go, people we know. We feel extra cool to know you and to find your names in the movie credits while we're on the other side of the ocean from you.

And more excitement: right as we left the movie, the casino was running its fire show.

Happy flames to you.