Day Fifty-five/Fifty-six:

Here was the cover of the birthday card I did for my grandma. Do you like the bear tracks at the bottom? (She likes bears).
My dad wanted to celebrate my grandma’s birthday this week since next week my sister and I will be busy with school. I’m technically not on break, but my finals were this week so after I completed my English final I had a little break. I was also in charge of drivingto my grandma’s house, to breakfast, back to her house, and then on the way home from her house. I don’t have a license yet (I really never found a need to learn how to drive), so my dad had to sit in the front seat the whole time while I was driving with the permit. My dad likes to tell me that I should be getting off at an exit right as the exit lane appears. My poor sister in the back seat probably got a little car sick. But, I should be given a little credit. My dad’s car is a large white SUV which is very hard to maneuver since I’m only 5’4″.

A delicious waffle stuffed with Granny Smith apples, topped with cinnamon and hot apple syrup.
My grandma picked a sweet little restaurant to have breakfast at. I ordered an apple waffle with Granny Smith apples topped with cinnamon and hot apple syrup. It was good till the last bite. After breakfast, my dad worked on fixing my grandma’s water pump for her pool. It took a while, but she suggested we go out to see this movie she had seen which was really good. We went to The Artist, which is filmed in black-and-white and is for the majority of the movie a silent film accompanied by the orchestra’s music. Plus there wasn’t too much of the screens where you had to read what they were saying. You could almost just picture what they were doing by their reactions to each other. The main character finds out that silent films are being replaced with talkies and he tries to figure out how he can cope (the movie takes place from 1929 to 1932). Its a really amazing movie, and if you can I would definitely recommend watching it.
My grandma really liked my card I drew for her. It was a birthday cake with “Happy Birthday” with bites out of the cake and letters.Since my grandma loves bears I tried to create a bear theme, with bear tracks leading to a “party bear” that had eaten some of her cake. She thought the card was really adorable. By the time we packed up to go home it was super dark outside, but my dad says I need to get more night practice in before I take the driving test. I also found out that with my dad’s car I have been high-beaming people instead of just turning on the lights. Whoops. His car isn’t the latest greatest, but I forget sometimes which lever or button does what.

Here's the movie I saw (I just took a pic of the movie poster). π

The final score of Scrabble was 202 to 192. My sister beat me by 10 points. π¦
Today I went lap swimming. It’s been so long since I’ve gotten up early to go swim, but it felt nice after a break of it. I packed my team swim bag and walked up to the pool this morning. I was a little nervous since its usually crowded and there’s always a cute life guard on duty. When I got there (which was a little after the lap swim session started) I found that all the lanes had at least one person in them. I was going to swim in one lane towards the far right when I realized it was a guy at least in his 20s swimming pretty fast. So I moved down to a lane with 2 women swimming. They obviously didn’t know how to share the lanes, so I zig zagged while swimming. It was pretty funny. Soon one of the ladies left and I was able to have my own half of the lane. I swam for about an hour until I saw a cute guy with bright orange/red hair looking for an empty lane. I realized it was the younger brother of one my high school classmates. I recognized him since I had gone to a boy’s swim practice and he was also on the JV team. Along with the other boys, he was having trouble putting every effort into swimming. I was able to help them figure out that within that last length of the pool you swim you have to go all out. My JV coach was happy I came to the practice and gave me a hug. So since the boy’s swim season is still going I thought he cold use the lane more than I did.
I swam a total of 1300 meters (26 laps). And with a pool that is only 25 meters for one length, I had to swim 2 lengths to equal a lap.
So in an hour I was able to go back and forth 2600 times. That might sound amazing, although that is nothing for a swim team. I still felt accomplished today. π