April 3: Ben & Jerry's, Baskin Robbins, Ukes and a Fedora

Lee and I went to Nashville tonight, in an attempt to go to Ben & Jerry's for free scoop night. We've had Ben & Jerry's ice cream before, but never from a scoop shop, and never a free scoop, so it was a perfect "new thing".

Unfortunately, we had lots of trouble finding parking because it was near Vanderbilt University and all the lots nearby required school permits.

After a while of looking for parking, we finally decided to park at Centennial Park and realized Ben & Jerry's was still 1.2 miles away. The 8:00 cutoff was getting close by this time, and there was a long line, of course, so we just went back to Franklin, to Baskin Robbins downtown. We got our ice cream and walked around a bit. A musician was performing "When I'm Sixty-Four" by the Beatles at Mellow Mushroom, so we walked that way to check it out. By the time we got there he was packing up, but we talked to him for a while and he is a huge Beatles fan! He plays the ukulele for a lot of his Beatles covers, and apparently the Beatles really liked the uke, and most of them played it. I like it too, and it's funny that I played a little on the way to Nashville tonight before we met this guy.

We still had fun, even though we didn't make it to B&J. I still did a couple new things, and it was a beautiful night! Also, I bought Lee a fun fedora at Dollar Tree, and he loves it!

April 2: New Route for Evening Walk

Lee and I usually walk Mindy in the afternoon or in the early evening. We live at the very back of our apartment complex. From our little parking lot, we can turn left or turn right to get to the gates at the front, and it's about the same distance in either direction. We usually go left, but tonight we went right. We've started this way before, but it's been a while, and not since the weather has gotten warmer.

It was nice to change things up a bit by going right! The view was fun with the sun shining right at us!

On our way, Mindy found a banana that someone lost.

We got to see the big magnolia trees on the other side of the complex that we usually miss because there aren't any on the side we usually take.

And I think Lee found where the baby ninja turtles emerged. Ha!

I'm glad we turned right tonight! It was a very nice walk (and even a run at times)!