A Summer Day

Are you an indoor person or an outdoor person?

Can you resist the charm of summer and stay in front of the computer for hours?

I can't, especially since I started working full time this April. I stayed away from the screens (big or small) for as long as I can, especially over the weekend.

I am an early bird, even though I wanted to sleep in sometimes over the weekend, I still wake up around 7:00 most of the time.

This morning, I was out walking in the neighborhood at 7:15 am.

I borrowed 10 audiobooks the other nights so I started checking out a few of them, including one of Danielle Steel's new novels.

After breakfast, we did our 4th bike ride this year, another 20 km along the St. Lawrence river. It was very enjoyable.

The highlight of the day was the picnic in park Lafontaine with some of my Toastmasters family members. We played games. We chatted animatedly with one another. We watched a salsa dance performance. I met my co-coach, Reem, for the first time.

It is also the first time I see most of the other people in person since last March. It was a refreshing experience.

At one time we had 15 people.

The cover photo was taken before the rest of the seven showed up.

It was a great meet up and a few of us proposed to the incoming club President to continue this tradition and benefit from the beautiful summer.

A dip in the swimming pool and over 22,000 steps were the perfect way to end the day.

Cheers to a beautiful summer day like today!