Good Friday? YUP

This past Friday, The Princess and I had a rare coinciding day off from school and work for Good Friday.  And, boy, was it a good Friday.

First up: a nice, leisurely walk around the neighborhood with our doggies.

I'm, ahem, the one on the left.

Next: a two-mile nature walk through our favorite forest preserve area.

My loves, getting under way

The painted turtles are awake!  The painted turtles are awake!

Pretty little coot soaking up the sunshine

Spent seed pod

Canadian geese

Mossy log with mushrooms

Hi!

Pensive Princess

The Hubbs says this could be a Windows background.

Pretty sun behind the clouds

Don't worry; we thwarted this escape attempt.

The Hubbo Family!

I'm so happy she enjoys these walks, because I know we do.

After the state park, we stopped for lunch at McDonalds and played at one of the remaining PlayPlaces in the area for a while before the big surprise of the day: SWIMMING.

My two favorite people, in one of my new favorite places.

It may sound like a lot, but this is our favorite kind of day around here.  There's nothing better than spending time with our family doing the things that we love to do.  I only wish we'd joined this pool earlier so we didn't have to go months over this long winter without swimming.  The good news?  We'll never have to go through a swimming drought like that again. :)