Late July/Early August

Sorry I didn't post last week :/ I've been having so much fun exploring parks and checking out books libraries that I never took the time to really log anything down. But I'm here now, and I'll catch y'all up on everything that's been happening this week (yeah, I said y'all; my southern side is really showing xD)

We went to the park last week. A stranger had given us a $30 coupon for ice cream when we went to eat at Jimmy John's, which was so nice. My dad's birthday was Thursday! My brother found him this marine bear at Goodwill (he's a veteran)

Monday was a looooong day. Long, but good. First, we went to our tenth park this summer. It had no trail, but there were these woods for some golf disk game or something (never heard of it) and the woods were beautiful! So breathtakingly beautiful<3 It gave me inspiration for describing scenes in my stories. I have an idea now; I'll get descriptive as possible, remembering every detail about an area I've been to so I can describe it clearly (I've heard of advice like this before), and then I'll edit out the unnecessaries. With this new idea and that fantasy series in the loom, I feel like Kronk from Emperor's New Groove: "Oh, yeah, it's all coming together."

Then my two older siblings and I went to hang out with an old friend who came to visit town (she lives somewhere else now since she's in college there). I had SO much fun! We got some ice cream, went to a sandwich shop, a craft store, and then Barnes & Nobles. I realize that you, you know, actually get to talk to people when you don't go to see a 2-hour or longer movie. This was really fun; I want to do it again with another friend sometime this month or before school. Anyway, I had lots of fun, just talking and catching up on old times. I know there's a quote about how you remember the time you spent with people you care about the most, and that's so true. No matter how busy you are, make sure you make time for the ones you love, because that's what's really important in life.
Afterwards, we re-watched Guardians of The Galaxy since the younger ones didn't get to see it.

Tuesday was another long day! Let's see if I can remember everything...In no particular order, we went to the park, but there were no bathrooms or water fountain :/ But we made fun of it by racing up and down this hill.

I think we went to Walmart after that. Since a lot of the parks have like tennis courts and some had basketball ones, we went to buy that. My brother found me a Star Wars Millennium Falcon shirt that was on sale for like $5.00 (it used to be like $7 or so) so of course I had to buy it :D Also, he found some superior shirts (like Superman, Age of Ultron, etc) and a Looney Toons one that he got.

Eventually we got hungry, so we ate lunch at this restaurant (I won't give the name because it may be local) that sells DELICIOUS sandwiches and panini's. Let me tell you, the food there is SO good! I hadn't eaten it in SUCH a long time, and there's this chicken pesto panini that's to DIE for. I also went there Monday so I had it two days in a row! :D

We went to Goodwill sometime later, though I don't remember when. I wanted to swing by just to see what they had, maybe some T-shirts, and I found some! I made some jewelry with them later that day. I love how I can find perfectly nice T-shirts there for half the price at a craft store :)

I know we went to the library twice, but we did it at two different times. We went to the largest branch because a movie my parents wanted to see, Wreck It Ralph, was supposed to be there, but it must have been on hold or something because she said it wasn't there. So it's on hold now. And then later on, we went to the branch closet to us. It's smaller but the people there are really nice. Not that they're rude at the other place, but they're more talkative here (probably because it's a smaller branch). I had something on hold - Transformers, I'm pretty sure, the first one - and so did some others so we went there and got that.

Friday was my sister's birthday! We did a park again that day, but we also went out to eat for lunch and dinner. First we ate some DELICIOUS pizza and nachos at this local pizza restaurant. And then we ate dinner at this great buffet. And today my grandma got my sister a cookie cake and lemonn cake - it was SO good!