Life on the Street

One of the many wonderful places about where we live is all of the fun, kid-friendly action that takes place on our street. As we live in a gated community, our street dead-ends about 100 meters past our house. (If you look past Gabi's funny face, you can see the end of the street.)

So in the evenings when we aren't playing on the playground behind our house, we are often joining the many other kids that are playing on the street. Reeve and Gabi love to ride their bikes up and down our street, often with several other kids on our street.

Our amazing neighbor, Nani will sometimes be playing badmitton outside on the street and Reeve, especially will love to join in. In just the past couple of days, he has gotten much better at hitting the "shuttlecock" as it is now called.

Another daily highlight for our girls is going "jogging" with Candy. Each morning our amah takes Rania and Gabi for a "jog" around the neighborhood -- so our kids are quite well known by everyone. In fact, one evening, some neighbors who live a few streets down were walking, and Gabi went up to them and said, "I'm Gabi." The older man replied, "Yes, everyone knows you're Gabi." I thought "Uh-oh," but the man generously replied that it was a good thing.

But often the girls morning jog involves two dogs that live at the end of the street. Terrance is not nice, but Candy (in picture) is delightful, so the girls will go "jogging" with Candy.

We've been so blessed and pleased with our housing situation and the wonderful neighborhood that we have here. Enjoying "life on the street" and the cool evening air has certainly been fun parts of our evenings.