Yesterday was a family day again. I did 40 in the morning with my kids just like yesterday. We went out to the park most of the day. This park has some hiving trails, so we ended up walking most of the time there. I love hiking, so it was good. I'm happy to see that as my kids get older, they enjoy it as well. Though it seems like lately my oldest is always terrified of something.
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Yesterday it was snakes. He was afraid we were going to meet some in some of the trails, and he kept worrying about it, wondering if the imaginary snakes would be venomous and kill us. There are several venomous snakes in Japan, including a rather nasty one called a mamushi which likes to hide in leaf piles and does get the occasional hiker, so I didn't lie to him and say we won't run into any, but I did say the likelihood is fairly low and I told him what to look for.
Besides the snake panic, it was a good day and we all enjoyed.
When I got home I wanted to knock out the rest of my squats, but the kids wanted to play Uno, so Uno it was. Then they settled down to watch Ultraman, so I took the time to do two more sets of 30, bringing me to 100 squats for the day.
That brings me to 1105 for the month!
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