The correct answer is took a ferry ride. The question is to make a parallel construction in this sentence. In order to do that, you need to use the same form of words. So, in the sentence above, all verbs are written in past simple form, which means that the verb which is missing has to have the same form.
I would suggest, which my teacher stresses whenever we write anything, is to ease into a quote... the quote ou used seems as though it was just dropped there.