A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Living in our neighborhood is a real treat.  We have never lived in such a nice place before.  Never does a worry cross my mind that I am not safe going for a walk.  There are foot paths, a park, and a beautiful field.  The houses are all new (at least by my standards - the area is about 20 years old).  We haven't really ventured out on walks much because we have been, busy, tired, or its raining.  Yesterday was our big walk.  Drew took the bus home from work, he doesn't do too often, I usually drop him off at work in the morning and pick him up sometimes too.  Drew is able to watch TV shows on his new phone and I think he really enjoys the down time of the bus ride.  The bus stop is about 3/4 of a mile from our house.  Yesterday the sun was out and the weather was a great temperature.  Anna and I set out to meet Drew at the bus stop.  The walk usually takes him about 15 minutes, we doubled that amount of time, because Anna and I tend to take life a little bit slower.  So I grabbed a stroller to push my stuff (Anna isn't a big fan of the stroller yet) and a baby bjorn to carry Anna and we headed out.  We saw all kinds of things on our trip and had a great conversation about all the flowers and beautiful yards (they call them gardens here and for good reason, all of them seem to be professionally landscaped).  We saw some children playing, one had a cardboard box that was decorated like a horse and she was wearing it around.  Another had an alien mask on.  We saw people coming home from work, other people were out for a walk themselves.  We had a great time.  We arrived at the bus stop about 5 minutes before Drew's bus was to arrive and sat down on the bench.  Anna had some time to start a nice meal.  When Drew arrived we waited for Anna to finish her dinner.  I had enjoyed the walk so much that I said we should walk to a restaurant and have dinner for date night.  So, we continued on our lovely journey into town (which apparently isn't that far of a walk at least not on a beautiful day).  We passed lot of shops and more people.  We talked about where to eat and ended up at Pizza Hut, not too exciting but good food and family friendly.  After dinner, we weren't sure if it was going to rain or not, so we thought it best to take the bus into our neighborhood.  It was a great idea because after we got off the bus, I realized that walking on a full tummy is a bit more tiring than walking on an empty tummy.  We got home as the clouds were getting darker but we certainly had a great opportunity to enjoy the beautiful day in our neighborhood.