Six Word Saturday (6/15/13)

Walking more, Madagascar 3 and Swimming

This past week I started walking for exercise again.  I sing a cadence in my head that I heard at my son's Air Force graduation.  I have worked up to singing it 45 times during my walk and then I turn around and walk home.  That's about 18 minutes worth.  I know it's not a very long walk so far but it's really hot here, and no matter how early I walk, I'm drenched in sweat when I get home.

Tuesday I took the kids and a friend of theirs to a "free movie" at the theater, Madagascar 3.  Both of our families have the DVD but it's more fun watching it on a big screen.  I say "free" in quotes because the snacks and drinks from the concession stand cost me almost $20.  The city has the road torn up (literally, all the way down to dirt) so it was kind of harrowing trying to get there.  The next time we go I'm having us leave earlier.

As for swimming, over the past six years that we've lived here, either we or our neighbors (or both of us) had a cheap pool to swim in but it got expensive with the chemicals you had to add and changing the water, etc., so now neither of us have pools and my neighbors are nice enough to let my kids go swimming with their kid at their grandma's duplex.  Plus also both families got the kids season passes to Wet N Wild in Anthony, N.M.  Since we can't take turns taking them (I don't drive on the highway and my husband works), we're giving them gas money every other week.  My neighbor told me they will be going there once a week or so.