The Middle Child Smiles: Day Trip

Today, again my dad and i did something special.
Today to start off our trip we went to Borders (I cant believe that they are closing after 40 years!) and got.........this!

Now if your name is Eliza, Kara, or anyone who knows what this is, its a very very awesome book.
If you are not one of those people, it is a cook book that everyone really needs to get, because: 1. the recipes do not contain ingrediants that you will only use for that one recipe, 2. gives you step by step instructions with a picture for each step, and 3. the pictures are AMAZING!!
This is what every page looks like-

Sorry the pic is a little big, but its the only way you can really see the details.

So i am so proud of this here book because it was the last one there and it took about 15 min. to find it and the last 5 were with a worker, my dad, and me. But i found it and got it and thats all that really matters. (Thanks dad for spotting me at the check out! :) )
After we got done at Borders, we went to JOF Express to get the oil in the van changed. while we were there, i took these pics and read People. I also found that they have a personal hot cocoa maker there! ( i am totally going there in the winter!!)
After that, we went to Wally-World, redeamed some bottles ($4.75 to be exact), get some rust-oleum for my mom and a filter.
After that we went to Wendy's and had supper.
The whole time we were out, my dad was keeping a secreat from me about something that we were going to do on the way home from Adel (where he works). The whole time, he would not tell me until we were about to leave his work.
When we were leaving, he told me that we were going to walk across the High Trussle Bridge.
For those of you who do not live in Iowa, this is what it looks like at night.

Its not blue all the way across, its only like this in the middle of the river.

The High Trussle Bridge, is a bike path that is 13 storys above the Des Moines River. Its a 1/2 mile one way, but you end up walking about 2 miles total from the parking to the end and back.
Here are some more pics of it. its really pretty.