Today is a holiday. The only thing we had planned was cooking steak in the evening. It was a perfect day to just “bum around.” Well, not wanting to simply lay around, watching TV, Barb and I decided to ride around on public transit and see if there would be any glitches when taking her kids on a field trip this Wednesday to Stanford. It was a Holiday Schedule (a Sunday schedule), so there were certain busses that weren’t running. This did not seem to affect us though.

The trip from the school to downtown San Jose went just fine. Our transfer was easy. We got to the San Jose Train station in 1 hour and 40 minutes, which was a little longer than we wanted, but certainly wasn’t too bad. We checked out the facilities there (where the bathrooms were, which tracks we would need to get on) and then decided we were hungry. Being that this was Memorial Day, many of the downtown restaurants were closed. The only thing that seemed to be open was a British Pub (Britannia Arms). The food there was excellent, and I was a little surprised that the beer wasn’t. Oh well, it was still a great lunch. Afterwards, we headed back and then cooked that steak in the evening, which was very yummy.