Our Wednesday: Nature Trails, Library Tours and more

We had a pretty busy Wednesday yesterday. Well, we had a good Tuesday night too. We went to Pizza Hut (kids eat free Tues. night!) and ate their buffet. Oh...deliciousness. Then we went to the Railroad park and played around for a little while. It looks all spiffed up for the RR Festival, and the fountain is back on, so that's really pretty. I took pictures...

Seth pauses from his fishing (for leaves) for a quick picture to appease his Mama

I wish the pictures were a little better quality, but oh well...you get the picture (no pun intended). The fountain looks really pretty all lit up.

So Wednesday...Kim had to run her car up to Columbus to the car place...so I had to follow her in my truck and then we came back to Aberdeen. We were on our way to the library when Kim got a call from a "long lost relation" who turned out to be Datwin! He was in town for work, so we met him at McDonalds and had a nice conversation with him. We oohed and aahed over his company vehicle, which was very nice, and Lily ran around collecting leaves (and then rocks). So it was very good to see him! An unexpected uncle visit on a weekday!

After we parted, Kim, Lily and I ate at McDonalds...then headed for Blue Bluff (a picnic area by the Tombigbee) and walked down a nature trail...with 500 billion steps (yes, this nature trail had steps)...and an incline (or decline? it went down) which led to a pier overlooking the water. It was SO pretty. Then...we had to go back up. Oh...my...gosh. I did not think I was going to make it back up all those stairs. My muscles are aching like you would not believe today. Lily bounded up the stairs with ease, while Kim and I -literally- huffed and puffed and dragged ourselves along!

Going down. The easy part...(Kim and Lily)

Yay! We made it!

After we made it back up, we had a much-needed rest and Lily played on the playground for a while...the very sandy (and damp) playground, fun for getting your feet really dirty, which Lily did...

Then we went to the Aberdeen library. They have a really cute children's section there. Its small but really cozy with little armchairs and a huge rug with a dragon and a little castle too! Lily had a ball and demanded that Kim and I each read her a book while she sat inside the castle. The book I read was this really weird book about March, April and May being the daughters of Mother Earth and they kept fighting...weird.

The story castle

You can't see Lily very well there, but at least you can see the castle. They had a "free book table" there, also...free books! I ended up, very embarassingly, getting about four or five of them. I had this huge stack when I came out of the room. What a nice library! haha

We messed around in Aberdeen for a little while, waiting for the car place to call us back, so we went to Kim's and rode bikes up and down her street, then headed back to Columbus. There, we decided to go to the Columbus library. It was BIG. Not as big as the Tupelo library, but big nonetheless. The whole top floor was the children's section. They had this awesome storytime room filled with dolls and puppets and old books...a little fireplace with chairs on either side, and a beautiful rug on the floor. It was very cozy. Lily just ran around and reveled in it all. I tried to take pics there but my phone was being weird and wouldn't let me. I started thinking about our little children's section at our library, and how we have to fight for our storytime space sometimes...(sometimes mean old biddies come and get mad because we sit in front of the "new book" section...and they loudly interrupt us and make an idiotic display of themselves! Ok, I've said too much now)...Anyway, it was very nice.

By the time we'd gotten gotten the car and I got home, I was exhausted. I went to bed BEFORE 9:30 last night! That's unheard of for me! haha I'm really excited to have tomorrow off. Kim wants me to come with her, Becca and Leia to pick out Easter dresses, but I have GOT to clean my house! It has fallen by the wayside this week. I was thinking last night about how wonderful it would be to have a cleaning service come and get it looking shipshape in a few short hours. I don't think I'd want them going through my stuff though. Still..it'd be nice, wouldn't it?

I hope everybody has a great Easter!