Yesterday, Agapito and I took the girls on a leisurely walk from our apartment down to Juiceland on Town Lake. Walking in urban centers is one of my top favorite activities, and if there's one thing that I like least about Austin, it's the lack of opportunity for city walking. But the day was everything that's best about spring in Austin: flowers in bloom, balmy and breezy, and a smattering of clouds to lend dimension to the sky and filter the light.
I know, it's boring to go on about how pretty the day was. But you gotta understand, spring is very precious to Austin residents! Just as mid-westerners know that fall heralds bleak days of frigid darkness, we know that spring is the prelude to 5 months of infernal heat, blinding light, and brown dead plants that might ignite at any moment and set your house on fire. One friend likened stepping outside in an Austin summer to standing behind the exhaust pipe of a running car. Austin summers offer few options in the way of family fun: splash parks worrying about skin cancer, lakes and rivers worrying about skin cancer, walking around the mall worrying about the death of your soul, and playing Wii in your apartment having surrendered to the death of your soul. I know, it is sad. I suppose I should be putting on children's plays and reading Dickens aloud as we cozy up next to the freon-scented AC vents.
So anyway, yesterday was a lovely spring day and we went for a lovely spring walk. It took us about 45 minutes to walk from our place to Juiceland. How far is it, you ask? Well, it probably takes about 10-15 minutes at a normal adult stroll. We took the following picture of the girls in the spot we took their picture a few years ago. Here they are.
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| Yesterday and a few years ago. |
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