The Tide

Tonight, Sebastian and I thought it would be nice to ride The Tide {a light rail} down to MacArthur Mall to have dinner. When we were pulling into the parking lot, the train was pulling up. We parked and ran up to the station. As we were walking up the ramp, the train pulled off. We thought that we would probably have to wait, so neither of us were upset about it. We were together, so we were good. :)

We stopped a half a dozen times before we arrived at the mall. We wanted to walk around a bit before we ate, so off we went. Hand in hand, we jay-walked a couple of times before getting to the mall entrance. After making our way up the stairs and through the Apple Store, we decided it was time to eat. Max and Erma's sounded good to us. We went, had a mini photo shoot, got our soup, ate our soup, got our salad, sent Sebastian's back, got a new one, ate that, and paid. Then, it was time to go.

By the time we left, the mall had closed. Therefor, we went out a different entrance and went to a different train station. We knew it would be coming soon, so we hurried over to buy our tickets in enough time. There were five other people there already waiting when we went up the ramp. We were waiting for our tickets to come out of the kiosk machine when The Tide rolled up. The tickets came out, we turned to get on the train, the doors shut, and the train left. We were standing there confused. It was there for 7 seconds max. After calling my dad to ask if he would talk to someone important and tell them how rude the encounter was {I dream big}, Sebastian and I picked our corner to wait in. We thought nothing else could possibly happen. After about a 25 minute wait, we saw the next train turn the corner and head our way.





Finally, we were home bound. We sat down excitedly knowing we were so close to being in our car again. As the train pulled off, a man came on the intercom and informed everyone that we would have to get off at the Norfolk State University station because that train was done running for the night. Great. Not only would we have to do more waiting, but it was almost 10:00 at night and NSU wasn't the safest place to be. I called my dad and he said to go ahead since they would probably have another train ready to pick us up. The man said we wouldn't have to wait more than 5 minutes, so we went ahead with the rest of the group.

When we arrived at our forced stop, everyone got off to wait for the next train. After the promised 5 minutes had passed, Sebastian and I began to sing. Just a Kiss by Lady Antebellum is one of our favorite songs, so we started off singing that. We were quiet and people we so scattered that no one would hear us. Once we were done, we wanted to sing something else. A few people had looked over at us and we thought that if people were going to listen, we wanted to be sharing the message of Jesus Christ, not how much we love each other. We sang a couple of VBS songs and then sang Amazing Grace. There was something about knowing someone could be listening that made me feel wonderful inside. Everyone needs to hear about Jesus. :)

About 15 minutes later, the train came and took us to our stop. We walked away and promised each other we would never ride The Tide again. It may not be as bad during the day, but our experience wasn't the best. Fortunately, I had the love of my life that made the whole night worth it.