lunch out, at an actual restaurant

[redbird]

cattitude, adrian_turtle, and I had lunch at Cafe Barada, which has a permanent fenced-off area with tables on the sidewalk. This is the first time the three of us have done something like this since before the pandemic. I suggested Barada for our first post-vaccination outing, and Adrian mentioned that they had been one of the first restaurants to go to take-out-only, last spring. (It's a family business, which might mean the management cared more about the health of the staff than someone who was employing strangers and expecting rapid staff turnover even in normal times.) I had lamb kebabs, cattitude had vegetarian kibbe (squash, mostly), and Adrian had falafel, and they shared stuffed grape leaves as an appetizer, and it was all good.

After lunch, cattitude went home and I went with Adrian to her place for a couple of hours. First, we walked up to Davis Square because she wanted to get vegan ice cream at JP Licks, but they were out of the flavor she wanted. I suggested taking a bus from Davis to Arlington Center and then catching the 77, rather than walking back to Mass Ave, but the bus ride it was bumpy enough to make Adrian uncomfortable, so we got out at Clarendon Hill. She was thinking of waiting for the next 87, but I suggested we walk along Alewife Brook Parkway instead, even though that was a longer walk than the one (trying to remember how long the walk would be) and said yes. After a few blocks of sidewalk, we got onto a boardwalk next to Alewife Brook. It was a nice day for a walk, and for sitting quietly for a few minutes on a random bench, and my hip was fine (with my usual caution of moving slowly and taking breaks before it started to hurt). Oddly, on the trip back to Belmont, my feet hurt from the short walk in the Harvard bus tunnel from the 77 to the 73.

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[pameladean]

I looked up Alewife Brook Parkway, which mostly got me real-estate listings, and then tried just Alewife Brook, which got me some lovely images of water and landscape.

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[cmcmck]

We have yet to try so I am envious!