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I think your idea sounds perfectly reasonable as your kids are choosing what they want to be doing with the sitter.  You might consider also having a couple of alternate activities in the house set up such as board games, perhaps baking something simple if sitter does such things should it be really ugly and rainy out all week long.

The one caveat I would have is to maybe have metro fare on one of your kids as well as sitter just in case she happened to lose one of the cards or lost it somehow.  The fact you will take the kids in and be meeting up for lunch if fine as you will also be able to judge how the day is going and suggest getting out of the city earlier if one seem a bit bored or exhausted.  You are setting a good example by encouraging them to see the city they live so close to.  Have you possibly considered a walking tour of one or more of the monuments if it turns out to be cooler.

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This is very smart - if each kid has some extra money on them, just in case (in the unlikely event they get separated or lose cards), they'd have money to get at least a paper farecard (it'd have to be enough to cover trips on paper farecards, which are $1 more than SmartCard trips).

Also, it might be a good idea to talk through a couple scenarios with the sitter and your kids - for example, do they know that if they rush through a door that's closing on the train, they could get separated if someone gets on and someone is left on the other side of the door.  So they should know thatn it is not a good idea to try to beat a closing door (and that they don't open like elevator doors), and also have a plan for what they do if they get separated (i.e. whoever was left behind would wait there while whoever is on the train would get off at the next stop and go in the other direction to meet them).  [/quote]

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