Sunny Summer Day
Aug. 11th, 2007 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljIt's gorgeous out there! I intended to go over to Halifax to look for some good walking shoes that my orthotics would fit in properly and called Mom to see if she'd like to go too. Of course she would! We started out at Winsby's and i found a pair of Rockports that the orthotics fit in nicely. They are casual enough that i can wear them in the gym but also to work and will look a bit more dressy than trainers (sneakers) and they're black with white stitching and sole. Looks nice, no?
We then went to lunch at Gatsby's. Mom had a lovely homemade soup and i had brunch, Eggs benny and they decorated the plate with the fruit quite nicely, too!
After that was a mandatory stroll through the Public Gardens. We'd sit on park benches in the shade when the sun got too warm and we'd watch the ducks and people. The Gardens are one of my favourite places in Halifax. I saw two things today there that i'd not seen before. Passing by the large pond, i saw what i thought at first might have been a dead duck floating in the water but i realized it was a turtle! Then later, we passed a tree with low hanging branches and under it was this huge big old grey goose!!! We also saw a pure white duck, something else i hadn't seen but wasn't sure if it was a duck or a goose. Probably a duck but a little boy was reaching out to it and we told him not to get his hand too close, in case it was a goose. He said to his dad "but a goose doesn't have teeth!" (no but they can snap that little finger off with that deadly beak!)
On the way back to the car, another obligatory stop at the Daily Grind news stand to browse the magazines. I was going to go to the gym but my orthotics have give me a blister in one arch. Am only supposed to wear them a few hours a day which is all i did today but I'm not entirely sure they fit in my shoes properly and what with all the walking, i guess that's the problem. Anyway even the exercise bike would have bothered it so i'm leaving it for today. We'll see how it is tomorrow, i can always put my other old ones in if a bandaid over the blister will do the trick. All the photos from the Gardens and a few assorted others, including a cartoon on the wall of the booth in the cafe and a window display in a framing store (that also carries prints and ornaments) with a Parisian and music theme)
We then went to lunch at Gatsby's. Mom had a lovely homemade soup and i had brunch, Eggs benny and they decorated the plate with the fruit quite nicely, too! After that was a mandatory stroll through the Public Gardens. We'd sit on park benches in the shade when the sun got too warm and we'd watch the ducks and people. The Gardens are one of my favourite places in Halifax. I saw two things today there that i'd not seen before. Passing by the large pond, i saw what i thought at first might have been a dead duck floating in the water but i realized it was a turtle! Then later, we passed a tree with low hanging branches and under it was this huge big old grey goose!!! We also saw a pure white duck, something else i hadn't seen but wasn't sure if it was a duck or a goose. Probably a duck but a little boy was reaching out to it and we told him not to get his hand too close, in case it was a goose. He said to his dad "but a goose doesn't have teeth!" (no but they can snap that little finger off with that deadly beak!)
On the way back to the car, another obligatory stop at the Daily Grind news stand to browse the magazines. I was going to go to the gym but my orthotics have give me a blister in one arch. Am only supposed to wear them a few hours a day which is all i did today but I'm not entirely sure they fit in my shoes properly and what with all the walking, i guess that's the problem. Anyway even the exercise bike would have bothered it so i'm leaving it for today. We'll see how it is tomorrow, i can always put my other old ones in if a bandaid over the blister will do the trick. All the photos from the Gardens and a few assorted others, including a cartoon on the wall of the booth in the cafe and a window display in a framing store (that also carries prints and ornaments) with a Parisian and music theme)
