The Marina del Rey Walk

I went back to Lisa's house at 5 PM and found her awake and Johnnie still asleep. I asked her if she could maybe stretch my lower back since I was still feeling some tightness and soreness after a week now. What she did was made me use the P.T. ball she had and do some routines taught to her by Sabrina (Mark's ex-wife) when she was having all those P.T. issues years ago. She guided me through her stretch routines and I will say it did help. In the middle of all this Johnnie woke up and so it was that Lisa wanted to go bike riding or walking because she had been cooped up in the house all day. Although i pointed out to her Johnnie and I had already been out and about we were happy to join her. At first we started to walk around the neighborhood and then quite SPONTANEOUSLY, and this was Lisa's idea we would find outselves in my car and driving to Marina del Rey. I guess we're walking there. Which was OK with me. We would need to find something to eat too since by this time it was already 6 PM. We'd figured we'd find something over there. Maybe a pizza place or something. At first we tried near the Venice Boardwalk. And we were horrified to see that the place was buzzing as if there was no pandemic going on. No facemasks, little social distancing. SOOO many people. We're not staying there! But we did find Sampas Pizza on Washington, which was near some pond Lisa had talked about walking around. I guess she bikes this area regularly.  I got half vegetale, half cheese pizza. And we ended up eating on one of the outcropping view areas to the pond. And then we did walk the pond, walking and talking and watching one talented heron in particular dive down and keep coming up with fish to eat. It turned out to be a nice walk. And for a few minutes there in the sunset I reflected on the fact that Lisa helping me on the roller was probably the first time we had touched each other in years. It did bring back memories of when we used to stretch when we ran together LOL. And this walk with Johnnie made me feel like we were doing a family thing. Yes our family might be broken. But for tonight at least, it wasn't. And it felt nice.  And I appreciated that. Very very much.