Good Friday! Not the religious holiday one...

So Chelsea and I went on our picnic today. We walk with my friend Lauren to Gengras for sandwiches and wraps or whatever, then were about to start walking a great distance to Elizabeth Park, but Lauren offered to drive us before she headed home. So we took the offer, figuring we would only walk back instead. When we got there, we wandered through the beauty of the outdoors, appreciating things that most people probably wouldn't even notice, like this one pinecone! It was great! And there were ponds and ducks and geese and birds and such. We found a nice corner of the park where there wouldn't be people too close to us, and we would be near these awesome looking tees. Seriously! They were some of the coolest trees I've erver seen!

Like this one in particular had such a strange trunk, the way it came out of the ground with the grass sort of starting to grow up the roots, just slightly, and the massive width and parts of it came out way more than others so there were all these ditchy looking spaces. And that was just the trunk! The rest of the tree was so tall and the braches extended out toward the sky so beautifully! We laid out the blanket and lied down on it. Looking up at the tree was such a treat, with the branched stretching across the bright blue, cloudless sky.
And there was a little woodpecker high above us in that tree, probably looking for bugs. It just so happened that everytime he pecked, bits of bark would fall off and come drifting our way. We got hit a couple times, but then he left.

We were eating Reece's Pieces at first, called Craig to leave a message for him, and talked some. As we ate our food, I noticed two elderly women sitting on a bench not too far from us. They seemed to be looking at us and discussing something, and they kept smiling in our direction. It got me thinking. I wondered if Chelsea and I would be like them some day, two women who have been friends for a long time and go sit on park benches and reminisce about being young together, or recalling their first encounter with each other back in college. Actually, I have no idea what their relationship was, but I sort of made up the story in my head as I observed them.

"Hey, Chels. Do you think that'll be us someday?" I asked her, referring to the two women.
"I was just thinking that," she laughed.

This led to our own conversation about the future, like starting families and having kids, how we'd visit each other and be aunts to each other's kids. Stuff like that. It was fun!
We also saw this cute couple on a picnic, occasionally kissing sweetly, then spooning later. There were also a young woman and a little boy on the road area. They seemed to be a mother and her son. They were so cute! He was riding one of those battery powered (or maybe electric) quads for kids. His mom rode around on it first to show him how, which was quite funny considering her legs were much too long for it. She then rode on one of those electric scooters, following him down the roadway one direction. Then they would return some time later, back in our view, and the son would be following the mom. We discussed that, too, about how cute they were.

There was also a cute family of a mom, a dad, and a baby boy. At one point he ran out into the street and mom had to get him. We said something about how our kids weren't gonna watch a lot of tv, or go the on computer all the time, but instead, we'd go on family picnics or go for walks.
Then at some point, we each had a leaf and were lying down, facing each other. We just started having a leaf battle, like a little sword fight without the blades. That went on for a good few seconds until we saw how corny it was and started laughing histerically!

Before we started the return journey, we played a bit of frisbee, barefoot, of course! Then we found a totally amazing creepy-looking, should-be-in-a-scary-movie tree! It's branches were all hanging down, touching the ground. We also found a pretty bathroom with flowers painted on the ceiling. On the way home, we looked at all the old houses and picked out all our favorite features, relating certain things to art. Every aspect of the day was amazing! From the weather, to the park, to the picnic, to the people, to the journey home. We got Fruit smoothies from Zia when we got back, too.
And everyone was outside enjoying the weather, playing Frisbee, listening to music, and just hanging out! It was incredible to see! To top off the day, we went to Bible study, and we ended up having it outside in the courtyard of Regents! Awesomeness! From there we went to dinner, where we watched CJ juggle two and two halves of an apple...only the halves were kinda together because... uh, nevermind. It was just cool! So then everyone decided to go to the orchestra concert at Lincoln Theatre. I headed back to my room first, then met up with them. Chels and I left a bit early, being tired from the long day, even though we hadn't done that much.

So anyways! That was my spectacular day! The day that completely cancelled out every bad thing about the week behind it! Wow! sorry this is so long again! Oh, well! Have a super day!

Peace and love!