Part V - In Town

Once we arrived on Boston Post Road, the High School's clock bells went off. Alex wanted to go see where the clock was and that just would have been terribly inconvenient, since it was in the opposite direction we wanted to go. I convinced him that there would be a clock in the town that he could see.

We came across an Episcopal church on Rectory Street that had a large clock on its bell tower. Alex wanted to run up to the church grounds to see it. It was 3 minutes to five when we arrived there, so I told Alex that we were in luck. The bells were about to go off.

My tired little boy and I sat on a bench in the church garden, talking and waiting for the bells. When they went off, Alex was startled and wanted to know ALL about the bells now. It was fairly easy to convince Alex to leave that place.

Now he wanted to go to the library, which we reached at 5:15, just before their closing time. I checked it out to see if their children's room was one worth visiting on a different adventure. After seeing a large dollhouse, it was a challenge to remove Alex from there too. I convinced him that we had to have dinner, since it was so late.Alex was happy if he could direct which path we'd take towards the train station and restaurants. This path took us past the fire department, which he wanted to see as well. Then, back on Purchase Street, I spotted a toy store still open. Alex had spent the day being such a big boy and his Ferrari was delayed, I decided to get him a toy. He chose a passenger plane toy and played with it all the way home.  We stopped for a brief dinner at Cozi, which wasn't much of a dinner. At the booth, Alex declared "Alex is going to lie down like a baby now." I told him that he could lie down on the booth seat if he wanted and he quickly did. That's when I realized that a cab would be a better way home. The staff gave me a company number and I found that the fare was only 12 dollars.

I took it to Powell's instead of home, worried that crossing the line into Mamaroneck would raise the fare by too much. So we walked home from there. As Mary from "Jack's Big Music Show" would say, "WHAAAAT a day!"