Tourist in the city

My mom has also come to visit. Her first day visiting we played tourist in the city. We drove over to the new light rail line and took it into the city. You know my dad would have SO enjoyed that!
http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/CATS/LYNX/home.htm
We took the ride from the furthest point out into the heart of the city. From there walked around for a better part of an hour. I know there is a runner's web-site where I could track how far we walked but for now let's call it a better part of an hour.
The hightlights of the walk were
Imaginon - this is a children's library just down the road from the main library
http://www.imaginon.org/index.asp
Bobcats Arena (recently - like within the week - renamed to Tome Warner Cable Arena)
http://www.timewarnercablearena.com/
We walked passed Discovery Place - the topic at the moment is Dinosaurs - which did not catch our interests.
And Bank of America Stadium.
We picked up the light rail again at the other end of the city and headed back out. We stopped in South End for lunch at Pikes. There was also a kids arts festival going on. We proceeded to walk through that as well.
http://www.historicsouthend.com/index.asp
Eventually we got took the rest of the ride back to the car. But HEY check out the pics from along the way.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=oe1f59m.7xm624zq&x=0&h=1&y=prhddf&localeid=en_US
We also caught a glimpse (OK - I caught a glimpse because my mom has no idea who this is) of Dan Morgan. It was a great day.