sunday evening stroll: swift creek bluffs

I love our Sunday evening walks. It's fun to walk alongside the kids and just listen to them talk or tell stories and give them more attention. Oliver has started asking every week if we can do a nature walk.

sunday evening stroll: lake johnson

sunday evening stroll: yates mill

sunday evening stroll

We love going on walks on our quiet dead-end street. The kids can ride their bikes and scooters and we don't have to worry too much about cars. It's especially nice right now because the main road connecting to our street is closed while they replace a bridge so it dead ends right at our street. We can walk out on the main road which is normally a pretty busy 45 mph road (with no sidewalks). The kids like to walk down to the construction site and check on the progress of the bridge.

NCMA

Before Courtney and Bria headed back to Virginia, we visited the North Carolina Museum of Art. We only had a few minutes to look around in the museum before it closed but the grounds stayed open later. The Museum Park was much bigger than I expected, with lots of walking trails through fields, woodlands, and a pond and some outdoor art installations. Great spot for an evening stroll.

sunday evening stroll: hemlock bluffs

We explored a new area in early March for our Sunday evening stroll. We walked one of the trails at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve. The girls each brought a stuffed animal and spent the walk telling us detailed stories about their animals' lives.

sunday evening stroll: yates mill

Gorgeous weather a few Sundays ago revived our Sunday evening stroll tradition. We walked around at Historic Yates Mill and explored some new trails. The kids had fun climbing on fallen trees. Oliver ran most of the trail, always insisting on being the leader, and yelled at anyone who dared pass him (or collapsed on the trail in frustration). Amelia and Elsa pretended to be imps the whole time. You never know what those imaginations will come up with next.