The city looks big, he told me. I watched cars zip along bridges and trains chugging along the bay and into the port, and said yes, I agree. Our city looks expansive, and we are a part of it. How novel to appreciate it from this vantage point, considering how small the world around me has felt since staying at home.
Other night dwellers came and went, but we stayed for a while, watching fireworks color the scintillating skyline. I cradled the short white fence with my legs, keeping them close for warmth in the nippy summer night breeze. We felt scandalous that evening, like young teenagers sneaking out after dark to a nondescript nook crowded by overgrown weeds, unwelcoming signs, and chain link fences. It was the perfect setting to whet our appetite for a fun shenanigan-filled soirée. Just imagine the stories awaiting us in the cityscape beguiling our eyes!
In reality, we visited a popular spot well before our grown up bed time. Our only shenanigans included devouring Costco cheesecake and streaming Netflix until our eyelids feel too heavy to fight. Again. Oh, how life in quarantine has softened us! The change in our mundane COVID routine was nonetheless thrilling.