Bonus walk today! Our friend
Shannon had a little time this morning – not much, so we picked the
last of our close-in walks, starting at the Tigard Clean Water
building and across the river to Tualatin City Park and back. The
path makes a big loop around an old cow pasture which is now a
protected wetlands, goes through the butterfly garden in Cook Park
and across the pedestrian bridge to Tualatin Park. We had done the
Cook Park-to-Tualatin portion of this walk several times when we
started walking last fall but stopped when we found ourselves
defaulting to this as an easy out when we didn't really feel like
walking. We'd never started at the top, though, and had no idea that
there was a way through to the park from the end of that street.
It was so nice to have Shannon
with us today. We talked about all of our kids (we have 11 between
us, so there's a lot to talk about) and got to hear all of the news
from the elementary school. Katje and I used to be really involved
until we “graduated out” when the girls moved up to middle
school, so it was nice to hear about how things have been going and
feel like we were back in the loop.
We had to speed up considerably
on the way back, because Shannon had to be at school to help in her
youngest daughter's classroom and it had taken us a little longer
than expected. Probably because we were so busy talking... We got
her back to school (only 3 minutes late), which means that we drove
there, walked 2.8 miles and drove back in just about an hour. Not
too bad!
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