Riding light rail

What an exciting weekend, the light rail finally opened in Seattle. The train runs from downtown to the last stop near the airport, to be expanded to SeaTac in Dec. The opening weekend was free so we waited until today to avoid the crowd. There were still a lot of people riding and the ticket line was long, but that shouldn't be a problem once the novelty wears off. It is a fast way to get downtown and avoid the traffic and parking problems that always involves. My granddaughter was dissappointed that it didn't travel at the speed of sound since it is called "sound transit".

There is a stop at Columbia City and I thought about taking a ride there and a stopping to look at the galleries and book shop.