Our First Neighborhood Party

One week after we moved into our house an invite was placed in our door for the second anual "Neighborhood Block Party." The party was to be held on July 24th at 6:00 pm with everyone meeting and riding or walking with decorated bikes, scooters, golf carts etc. Chris and I debated for several days whether we should go or not. As you know, neither of us are very good at meeting new people. We are definitely on the shy side so it's hard for us to mingle with others we don't know. The invitation stated that there would be face paiting, bounce houses, snow cones, balloons and fun stuff like that. So we decided for the sake of our kids getting out with other kids and having fun we would give it a shot. We walked to the corner and watched the parade go by and followed along lagging behind because we had forgotten the dessert and had to go back for it. Once we got to the party house our back yard neighbors greeted us and told us that we could sit with them so they could intoduce us to other families. Since we had not brought meat to cook we told them that others could sit there to eat and we'd meet up with them after they finished eating. Immediately Colby ran to the bounce house and started playing. We kind of stood there like deer in the headlights not knowing what to do. There were tons of people our age and a ton of kids so you would think we would fit in. We just kind of stayed to ourselves and got the boys snow cones, popcorn, cupcakes, watermelon, and balloons. Our backyard neighbors did come up and try to introduce us to some people but the conversations never really "took off". We stayed for about 2 hours. All in all it was an okay time. We were introduced to a few people, I don't feel like they will become my next best friends but it's nice to recognize people when you are out and about. In fact, the next night we were at Marble Slab Cremery and a lady walked up and asked us if we were at the block party and introuduced herself so we thought that was nice. And since the party I've seen a couple people out riding bikes or running and I can place them and even sometimes remember their name. So I guess we made some progress in our quest for neighborhood friendship.