A backwards loop (6 miles)

Did I say we had to walk 7 miles today? Well, I meant 6. My mom and I discuss our mileage about ten times a day and I still forget how far we need to go. We decided to walk down Fleet St. and then back by the water.

It was really humid today so we waited until later in the afternoon to leave on our walk. My dad decided to go with us but didn't bring Mikey with him because according to my dad "he can't keep up". My dad collects cans when he walks with us and its like a little kid on an Easter egg hunt. I point one out ahead of me and he runs to crush and collect it.

The good thing about my dad being on a walk with us is that he will go into Rite Aid for us to get water. The bad thing about it is that my dad buys the cheapest water available which is the flavored kind. He told us that the regular water wasn't cold. Likely story.

I know I have said before that my dad likes to talk but I like to talk too, so on this walk he was kinda hogging my talking time. If you were to see my mom and I on our walks you would probably see me waving my hands in the air explaining something to my mom or telling her some story about my life which she probably already knows. We went to see Julie and Julia the other night and again there was another depiction of the "annoying mom" on the big screen. Its always the same. The mom calls the young independent women at the most inopportune time and wants to interrupt her life with some annoying family news or complains about how the daughter never calls. It is really annoying to me because this is not what it is like with me and my mom at all. Maybe its because my mom is awesome and I am really lucky. So, on these walks I look forwards to the automatic built in talk-time with my mom. But today my dad and I had to share.

We found a total of 5 individual pennies today that will go towards my mother's fund for breast cancer research. My dad said we shouldn't expect to raise the rest of her $1,000 this way but you never know...