With the Glen Park Library in transition, we've been visiting other libraries. Wednesday, it was time to tackle riding BART down to the Main Library on Larkin Street. Jenny and Emma were our guides as we learned how to buy our ticket, manuveur both of us through the turnstile, ride the escalator, and board the train. I think the whole time we were at the library, Jack was anticipating riding BART home. The rides were probably his highlight.
The new Main Library is beautiful, six stories above ground and one below, all arranged around a six or seven-story atrium. Jack was uncomfortable in the atrium, which is "too big." Once we entered the children's section on the second floor, we found a wonderful storyteller acting out a folktale to a small group of older children. She tried to guess the children's names by asking how many letters and the first letter. Jenny said, "Emma, how many letters in your name"? Everyone laughed. The storyteller could not guess Jack's name until we supplied both the first and last letter.
Next we chose three truck books and joined Emma and Jenny in the room for toddlers. Emma had found a book for Jack and Jack found a book for Emma, "Bear About Town." We rode the elegant elevators and Jack reminded us of the cafeteria in the basement where we had quite a pleasant lunch until Jack decided to practice his Billygoat sqreeching and I hustled him out.
That afternoon, Jack built an escalator, a BART platform, a BART train, and a library with his blocks. The workingmen ate avocado and cheese sandwiches in the cafeteria.
On Thursday, Jack again played at building a BART station and then we spent an hour at the Hill Park. Much of the day we were Nerkey and Chew working on the construction site in Jack's room (Jack was reported to be riding a fire engine and putting out fires).
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