Lets talk about days that are amazing,

because I had one.

This post will hopefully be short. And if you haven't read my last monster-of-a-post post, do so, because it is worth reading. ANYHOO,

Today, I did two really awesome things, and two really physically painful things.

POSITIVE:
1. I went to the zoo with my two best friends.
- The zoo on it's own is awesome. Add in your best friends, a video camera and two regular digital cameras, and you've got an all together terrific outing.
- For the first time in a very long time, I just let myself be a fun loving kid. I didn't have anyone to watch out for, I didn't have a plan, I didn't have to do anything if I didn't want to. All I had to do was have fun with my best friends.
- Obviously, when there are numerous bronze animals chilling throughout the zoo, a good about of pictures were taken, in which I must look like an absolute idiot, but I had a great time taking them, who who cares?
- I decided today that my new favorite animal is the three-banded armadillo. SO CUTE! (In the dark, at least. Maybe it's not as cute in daylight...)

2. I went on a picnic party/park outing thing.
- I have to say that the group of people who were at this party were seriously one of the best groups anyone could ever wish to hang out with. They're energetic, entertaining, and genuinely amazing people.
- I got to play hot lava monster for the first time in a long time, and that was a blast. And also very exhausting.
- I waded into the really nasty kind of squishy yellowish river and tried to catch minnows with my bare hands. Felt like Huck Fin or something with my jeans rolled up, wading after minuscule fish. It was awesome.
- Literally fell down laughing and almost rolled down a hill numerous times.
- Stopped caring about what I looked like about half an hour in, and that made it all so much more fun and easier to enjoy.
- Shared a really great muffin at a really cool cafe with two really spectacular guys.
- Played trivial pursuit and felt like a winner even thought I hardly knew any of the answers.

NEGATIVE:
1. Flew out of a kiddie swing.
- I decided to jump off the swing after it had slowed down a bit, and somehow managed to trip over my feet as I landed, and somehow ended up doing a triple somersault, and landing on my face/shoulder.
- For the first time since I was 12 I have a battle wound earned on a playground in the form of a really nice set of scratches and cuts to the upper forearm and elbow.

2. Did something really stupid.
-While searching for something to throw off the tall bridge I was standing on, I spotted a cluster of those helicopter seed things. I decided that those would be cool to throw off.
- After a few failed attempts to reach the cluster, I jumped higher than I have ever jumped before, and got it! Yay me!
- NOT.
- What had before, from afar, appeared to be some kind of fuzzy coating on the seeds turned out to be the plants protection for the seeds from animals.
- My entire hand was covered, base of my palm to fingertips, with sharp, spiny yellow hairs.
- It took two plus hours to remove the majority of these offending hair things, and I am STILL finding them almost FIVE HOURS LATER.
- I hate plants.

But today, the positive almost overwhelmingly outweighed the negative, making this the best day of my summer yet. Hopefully this outing will happen again with this group.

I have a very good feeling it will.