Lauren gets her Ears Pierced

Because we're still in Arizona, we naturally want to head right to the pool. We normally get the pool to ourselves, but yesterday a little boy and his dad were there. My grandma had a little chat with the dad and found out they had just moved in down the street. Hannah and I played with the little boy for most of the time at the pool. He had a squirt gun, and wanted to play a splashing game where I splash water at Hannah and he squirts water at Hannah. She didn't like that very much. After Hannah decided she was done with the splashing game and got out of the pool for something, Hannah and I walked to the hot tub and sat down. Because we were the only other ones there, he wanted someone to play with and followed us to the hot tub. He wanted to play the splashing game, but I spared Hannah and told him I thought that the water was too hot for it to be fun and that it would hurt if we played the splashing game in the hot tub.
After we left the pool, showered, and gotten dressed, we drove to Desert Ridge (a shopping mall) and went to Claire's to get Lauren's ears pierced for Lauren's birthday tomorrow. She chose fairly big "diamond" studs, and when they pierced her ears one of the studs wasn't all of the way in her ear. I thought that the earring hadn't gone entirely through her ear, but I was relived when the worker pushed it into her ear so she could adjust the back. After Claire's, we went to Aero and I got a new church outfit for the spring-summer.
Today we went hiking at McDowell park (I think) and walked almost 4 miles! At the 1/3 mark, Grandma decided she couldn't go much further, so she and Hannah turned back and walked the Nature Trail. It was a long, rocky, dusty walk, but it was fun. When we completed the trail, my dad took us to Chevron and McDonald's for slurpies, smoothies, and a mocha frappe. Yum!
Hannah, Lauren, and my mom went to the pool, Grandpa and my dad worked on taxes, (...) and Grandma and I baked a cake and cupcakes for Lauren's birthday celebration at Grandma and Grandpa's tonight.
Bye!


Megan