a vacation day

there is something to be said for using your day off to be a tourist in your own neck of the woods…you see things in a different way when your in another town especially if it is for the first time or if you are on vacation…they seem to have better billboards and better shops…they have more interesting buildings and art or sculptures and things to do…which of course isn’t the case because that means some tourist is coming to your town thinking the same thing about where you live…i think we get pretty complacent and so used to the scenery and in a rut or habit of doing things that we pass right by our own interesting billboards and architecture and forget there are great things to do right down the street.

i spent today with one of my best friends catching up on things…we haven’t gotten to hang out for two months with my hours at work and his hours at work plus his vacation…we finally got a day to be stupid and have fun and we took full advantage of it…so after an egg, cheese and spinach sandwich we headed through the country into a neighboring town with camera in hand…we did a bit of shopping, talking and people watching, then we got take out sushi and ate it in the park with chopstick and all and after that we hit the historic downtown district and looked around like a tourist…it was great fun and i got some great pictures.

after that part of my day i headed home a new back way and on to get my daughter…we rode around with shorts and sandals on, the sunroof open and all the windows down…at dusk it made me think about being in florida and how free you feel when you are on vacation and know you have time off and how things seem different even though you are just coming back to your daily grind in a week or two.