Park Days

Some of the days I look forward to the most are ones where Michael and I have the whole day to do whatever we want, no obligations to anyone else, no computers or emails to answer, no schedule to follow. Those are the days when I really feel what it means to have someone you're spending your life with -- this is the person who I choose to have around me in my free time, who will be there when a job isn't, or when friends or family are busy with their own lives. It sounds really corny, but his life is my life. It's our life. Barf. Sorry.

Many times we end up spending free days at the park. So far we've visited at least seven different walking trails within 20 minutes of our house.

This trail is actually for mountain bikes, and it had a lot of interesting ups and downs, plus jumps and a couple ramps. The creek kept popping up through the trees. 

The trail curved back and forth, towards the water, and then away, so that you ended up almost doubling back before you could move forward. If I were a mountain biker I would have thought it was awesome. As a walker I kinda wanted to get there already, but it was still very pretty. 

I couldn't really figure out what you were supposed to do here. Is this literally where you're supposed to stop and talk to people? Or do you talk to the tree? Hello, Tree. 

We finished just as it started to rain, a nice summer shower to cool things off.