What a day for a walk.....

It's the day after Christmas and I just took my walk for the day. It made me both smile and sad at the things that I saw. The first thing that made me smile? I saw two boys out riding their brand new purple bicycles really proud of their new rides. They were trying to decide what to build a ramp out of so they could jump like I used to as I was a kid with my friend Jeff. (Quick side story here that I just remembered. When I was 13 or so we decided to jump our bikes in front of his house. My first jump of the day was the last because as I launched myself off the ramp, THE FRONT WHEEL OF MY BIKE FELL SMOOTH OFF!!!. I hadn't tightened it down well enough after I had replaced the inner tube in the tire. I wound up going face first into gravel and dirt. Hurt like a motherm that one!!!!) I turned the corner I saw a young family out in their front yard. As I got closer to them I noticed the young girl about 6 or 7 years old started running with her brown hair flying. Wait, she wasn't running she was kicking her new purple soccer ball towards a goal that was tended by her dad. Her mom ran along beside her trying to make it look as she was defending the goal also but, in reality, she was offering little resistance to the budding Mia Hamm. The girl deftly shot the ball past both of them into the goal and they all celebrated the goal. That's the perfect example of being a family to me. Then as I ventured further I saw a kid of about 12 out in his garage playing his new purple drum set. (Purple was the in color this year, I guess!!!) The sadder side of things that I saw were two seperate inflatable Santas that were no longer upright. One was laying on his back in the I've fallen and I can't get up position > We was still fully inflated just laying down. The second was completely deflated and laying on the ground looking very downtrodden. I mean if you are going to have Santa out in your front yard, you need to make sure he is taken care of!!! The other bummer of the day was I saw 2 or 3 people out pulling down their Christmas decorations off their houses. Now it will be back to where we really don't care about anyone other than our own little selves and the spirit of giving will be packed away for another year. It was a good walk because it excercised both my body and my mind!