Rambo getting ready for Bear Lake

"Bry Dog", Jess, Jake, and Kate invited Reese, Mason and I to spend a day up at Bear Lake with them. We took up some sand toys for the kids and they hardly stopped to eat lunch because they were having so much fun. The water was a little cool for my taste but that didn't stop the four adults from swimming out to the distant buoys. Jessica and I counted the swim out there to equal about 8,000 steps (4 miles) because of how tired it made us.

Mason, Jake, and Kate played in a little pond right next to the lake. It was quite a bit warmer than the lake so we called it the hot tub. The kids, with the help of Reese and Bryan, made a canal from the pond to the lake and Mason loved going back and forth from the warm "hot tub" to the cool lake and back again. He wore himself out and fell asleep right when we started the car to head home.

Pedometer for Step It Up

So my friend Jessica heard from one of her friends that if you go to the Rec Center next to Logan high, you can pay $5 and get a pedometer, a t-shirt, and a walking log. The program is called "Step It Up." Once you walk 100 miles, you take in your walking log and get three 10-punch passes to the Aquatic Center. That's 30 free swim passes! So we signed right up.

Now you may think that 100 miles is a lot...I did, but you would be surprised. After walking from the Rec Center to the Logan library, stopping by Great Harvest for some delicious bread, and back home, Jessica and I had already walked over 5,000 steps. They say that the average step is about 2.5 feet X 2,000 steps equals about 1 mile.

After a morning of walking, an afternoon of chasing and playing with Mason, and doing some housework, I have walked a total of 8,210 steps! And I have only had the pedometer for less than 5 hours.

So if anyone is interested in counting your steps and getting some pool passes, go to the Logan Rec Center right next to Logan High School. It's worth the $5! (I am not getting paid to advertise this, I just think it is a great program.)

(The pedometer pictured is not the one you get from the Rec Center. The one you get is a little more simplified)

Twilight...

So I read Twilight. It was good. The first half of the book I felt like I was in high school, which made me really frustrated. I don't like the way high schoolers act. I never really liked the whole snobby attitude. Anyway, I really liked the second half of the book. It was a very good read.

I am a little nervous about the movie coming out at the end of this year. I saw the trailer for it and got kind of sad. Edward, one of the main characters, isn't as good looking in the trailer as I had imagined in my mind. I guess that's why I don't like reading books sometimes because the movies NEVER live up to them and I like to watch movies a lot. I hope the movie is at least a little better at representing the book than Harry Potter and all those books/movies.

I will start reading the next book in the series of Twilight, New Moon, in about a week. We'll see how it compares to the first one.