I don’t really want to dwell on yesterday, as I am all about moving forward, but suffice to say, we had a much better day today than yesterday. It wouldn’t have been hard, but today almost felt easy in places.
She still has selective hearing when it suits her but today it was over irrelevant things, so it was less frustrating.
I didn’t have any richer sleep last night, mind but I survived it all better!
Getting our walk on, feeling strong. Rawr.
So to keep our step count up, our spirits up and the fundraising train rolling (did I just refer to myself as a train?) I decided the best thing for us was to walk off yesterday’s funk. I didn’t want us to do the same tracks we always do but I also fancied ending up near a bus home. I love walking, don’t get me wrong, but I also like having options and choice!
And here we have the Dafties lost in a forest. Not for very long and not very deep but a wrong turn added about 30 minutes onto our walk. Oopsie.
I decided it would be good to walk along the Water of Leith towards Stockbridge. Usual places we go, just taking a different route there. I also wanted to avoid going to a park. Not that parks aren’t awesome but we were at one yesterday and we’ll be at another on Thursday so I decided walking for the sake of walking in pretty surroundings was the way forward.
Things were going swimmingly until I decided to explore a bit. I had an idea that the path would take us one way. It didn’t. So then I thought I knew where it would lead. I didn’t. We carried on regardless, admired the flora and fauna, and ended up somewhere familiar just not at all where I thought! Oh well. We found our way in the end.
Google fit literally mapped me walking us in circles. Hilarious. Every step brings is closer to our goal!
We did stop for a break, as recommended by Google fit, where we had a coffee and a look at the photos we took. I like to take photos of the scenery as we pass. And she likes knowing what stuff is do if I have a decent photo, we can look it up in one of our reference books. Which she likes too. (I think I mentioned this. Nerdy fun is the best fun)
After lunch, I built us a reading tent. Because we all need a reading tent.
Today was still long, today was still tiring but it was a good day and we smashed our steps well before we stopped for coffee. Excellent. We’re really in the home stretch with only five more days to go. Can’t believe we are almost there. So excited. So invigorated. So ready for it!
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Travels With My Daftie 