Typically Friday night is our chill night – head home from work, grab some take-out on the way, and watch a movie and relax. This week however, we haven’t been able to get out for any sort of exercise all week, so we decided to get out for a hike after work.
Don’t get me wrong, we still picked up Chinese food afterwards and came home to watch a few Monk episodes, but the exercise was a little ‘addition to our tradition.’
I know we won’t have this trail network at our disposal in the evenings after we move to Camarillo, but there is a pretty nice greenbelt nearby that we can walk to in the evenings. That, and I’m sure road rides will become much more common since the roads around Camarillo lend themselves to that more so than the roads around Newbury Park.
The hike felt good and as always, melted off a lot of stress. This week has been loaded with faxes, emails, signing documents, reading stuff that’s hard to understand, insurance companies, mortgage companies and the likes. I’ll be thrilled to finally get into our home in three weeks.
The trail was amazingly quiet – I guess most people are out at dinner or otherwise ‘celebrating’ Friday night, so the trails probably aren’t the most popular place to be. I ran across a few of my favorite characters – the dinosaur-like stink bugs and a few baby rabbits, many of which would have fit in the palm of my hand. I guess it’s that time of year that baby bunnies are being born.
We had a great evening and it felt good to not do any house stuff. Our current home is already getting a bit messy as we begin to prepare for the move, so I think just even getting out of the house feels good.
