Saturday, July 13, 2013

Miles 64 through 69, Audubon & Akeley

Today started out with a trip to my mom's Curves.  It was the first time that she and I had gone together that the owner was there, too.  It's great when a mother and daughter work out together and especially see them having a successful experience with the Curves Complete program.  Not only that, remember my mom is only 4 weeks out from having a total knee replacement.  It was a Kodak moment.  The owner of the club took our picture and put it on the bulletin board and the Facebook page.  Here I am putting the picture here, too!
I'm 20 inches down and 20 pounds down, 
my Mom is about 26 pounds down and about 26 inches down!

After that I met up with The Sisters.  That's how I have to start referring to all of my fantastic sisters-in-law.  (My husband has 5 brothers, 4 of whom are married and all to terrific women.  Three of the sisters-in-law and all in town right now.)  They were at a salon getting pedicures.  By the time I got there, I was too late for a pedicure, but I had a nice visit.  When they were ready to leave, I said I was going to go walking, and my sister-in-law, Erin, said that she would like to join me!  Awesome!  It was nice to have a walking buddy.

For today I had chosen to walk at the Jamestown Audubon Society.  My sister had told me about it, and I knew it had at least 2 miles of trails.  The area over here is referred to as wetlands; very swampy.  Any swampy areas of the trail were traversed by bridge walkways.


When we finished this walk, I wanted to walk more.  I hadn't walked enough, and I knew there was another walk not far away.  My Dad had told me about an old railroad bed near the town of Akeley.  Close-by and a relatively short walk, so it was a good choice.  The terrain here is very similar to that of the Audubon Society.
At the end of the walk we were near some gigantic pine trees.  I had Erin take my picture with the trees so you can see how big they are!

I'm nearing the end of my walking adventure!  Only 2 more days of walking left!

Total steps today: 11,611


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