Our Encounter with Public Transportation

We've been having a few car troubles, so today I brought the car in to get looked at and hopefully fixed. Unfortunately, when the mechanic fixes your car you have to leave it there...for a while...meaning I have no car and, here's the clincher, no way to get home after I dropped the car off.
So yesterday as I was contemplating possible solutions to this predicament I tried to think of all of our friends with large enough cars to fit me and the 3 kids (with 3 car seats).  Surprisingly I was left with few choices because of a few reasons:
1- we don't have a huge amount of friends with large cars
2- all our friends with larger cars only have the big car to fit all of their children (and all their car seats)
3- even less people have a big enough car and enough children in school during the day to not need the use of the car seats while picking us up.
4- people have things to do and can't leave appointment set up months in advance to pick us up
...lame

After some failed attempts to find a single driver my mind turned to enlisting multiple people to help...and boy did this get tricky in my mind how to accomplish all that.  People would ask what time I needed to be picked up and my only answer was "sometime after Elise wakes up and eats..."  Not very precise.

So as I was looking at the map of where the mechanic was to our house I realized it was only 2 miles away, straight down the street our little neighborhood is off of...so I figured I'd get some exercises and run! A little exercises would be great! Then the reality of 3 kids sets in...who has a triple jogging stroller? No one.  We have a double but that left a problem with what to do with our 3rd child...and there was no way I was going to run with a child strapped in the baby bjorn...so I settled on just walking the two miles.

Then I had a stroke of genius, possibly inspiration?
Nathan loves all forms of transportation- planes, trains, cars, bulldozers, bikes, and...buses! So I decided to take the kids on the bus.  Nathan was ecstatic! I however was a bit nervous- 3 kids, a stroller, Elise's car seat, unreliable timing of buses...ay yay yay.

Turns out it was pretty enjoyable.  We only waited about 10 minutes for the bus, hopped on, Nathan helped pay the money then he and Abby starred out the window the whole time. They loved it :)

The bus dropped us off pretty close to home and we had a nice walk back to our house.  Google said the whole trip would take 17 minutes.  It took us a respectable hour and a half, but the kids had fun- so it was worth it right?