We went to this lovely, spacious park Monday. We've been before, but that was like years ago. It's so nice to walk on, a great way for someone to get their daily exercise in. Plus there's this beautiful lake with turtles and even alligators! I took some pictures, though I'm not sure how good they are.
Then we went to the library. They have this really cool superhero event going on, as well as summer reading things for kids, teens, AND adults. And you can win cool prizes and stuff. It's so cool. Gosh, I love the library<3
Tuesday we went to another park. It was so HOT outside, like it's been the past few days, but since we got out earlier it wasn't that bad. Plus, we found some nice shade :) Since we kind of lost track of our regular workout routine (since we moved and don't have a lot of space, which I may have already mentioned, so I'm sorry for repeating myself xP), I tried to get some exercise outside. But my mom pointed out that we're getting more natural exercise in - the kind our ancestors got before we started living a more sedentary life. So I'm glad we're getting our exercise in. I really love the park and being outside :)
Later on, we went to a Goodwill in another smaller city (not too far from us, though - about an hour) - since we discovered awesome stuff there at a GREAT price, we've been stopping at the Goodwills in our city and close to it. I found an Avril Lavinge album, "Let Go", for like 49 cents!!! So of course we went to buy it and now I have it in my iTunes. One thing I prefer about buying CDs/MP3s is that you can give it to non-Apple people, since Apple's so exclusive. Not complaining too much, though - I love my Apple products :D
Then we went to Once Upon A Child (not a thrift shop, but a secondhand shop with good deals, of course :D) because my sister wanted a Barbie (actually, two of them did). And I still love Barbies, so I went in, too. I found this pretty redhead, but she came in a lot and I had to buy the whole thing for $15 - it was a good deal, but I didn't want all the others. However, one of the ladies there said they could sell the doll separately for $2.50 :D So of course I bought it and my sisters got their dolls. I was so happy; it was like the universe wanted me to have it :D hehe!
We've been traveling around the parks lately - my mom wants to visit all the parks in the city. So we went to another one Wednesday. There were some girl scouts out there doing some nature stuff. Eventually, we decided to walk a mile and and half on this trail they had. And it was LONG. But I'm happy and proud to say that I walked at least 1 mile :D I enjoyed it.
Thursday we went to another park. I wished they had more room but they did have a nice trail to walk on. And it was only half a mile, not even half of the length Wednesday, haha. They had nice bathrooms, too, like the one we went to Wednesday. My mom found out that we have 30 parks in the city! We planned to go to all of them, and so far we've been to about 5. So we're only 1/6, or 17%, done with all the parks xD But I sure look forward to it!
We went to the library afterwards. I promised myself I would NOT check out another book until I finish the one I have checked out AND the one I bought from Goodwill. Which was really hard, because there are SO many books I wanna check out! I really enjoyed Wicked Lovely so I want to read the rest in the series, I may finish another series where I read the first two books and not the other two (one of them wasn't there, as far as I could tell, but of course things change).
The book I'm reading right now is a book I tried reading before - The Girl of Fire And Thorns by Rae Carson. The reason I stopped reading it was because it got confusing, and perhaps because it was so long (about 423 pages!), but I really enjoyed it. And I am enjoying it now. It's getting SO good! I hate how they killed off one character, though - not that they haven't killed off others, but I liked this one character! (no spoilers)
After I finish with that, I plan on reading the book I got from Goodwill. It's called The Fall, and it's the first book in The Nine Lives of Chloe King series by Liz Braswell (writing under the pseudonym of Ceila Thomson. It was the basis of the TV show of the same name that I enjoyed, though I heard the series is drastically different from the book. The premise is basically the same, though:Chloe King thinks she's a normal teenager girl - until she falls off the Coit Tower and dies. But then she's reborn, whereupon she discovers that she's a Mai, catlike species that have descended from the Egyptian goddess Bastet. She had nine lives, and is now down to eight. Which comes in handy, because there are people out there that want her dead. If the book turns out anything like the series, I think I'll like it :D
On Friday we went to the beach since we got out later and it was WAY too hot to go to the park. It was so much fun! Even at the beach it was warm, just showing how hot it really was outside xD The sand was BURNING hot, so I was greatly relieved when we reached the water :) I also collected some seashells and rocks - it was great to find them this day; a bunch washed up on the beach so I got a plenty fold. I had a lot of fun at the beach, which I always do, of course :)
So that's that! We had a lot going on this week, pretty much getting out of the house everyday. We might go to the park today, but we do have to get out early since it's going to be REALLY hot outside today, too. Or maybe we'll get to go the beach again... ;) See you later!
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