Thursday, April 9, 2009

Take The Beaten Path


Song of the day: Africa - Karl Wolf Ft Culture

Today my father and I drove out to St.Antoine for lunch, which is about a 30 minute drive from where I live. We stopped at a cute little restaurant and the food was great, though they litterally gave me a personal mountain of fries. On the way home we drove out of the way to stop at an apple orchard. I really seemed like a shady place, but they had great apples and awesome apple cider. As we neared closer to town we saw another shady looking place. this one was a furniture. For the sake of nothing better to do, we stopped in and explored the whole thing. They had huge tractor trailers filled with stuff and a deck built in front of them. We ended up finding something my mom's been looking to get for awhile. Sure one of the screws were missing and the others were falling out but we got it anyways. we brought it home and fixed it up and now we're just waiting for her to get home so she can see it. I'm not just trying to tell you about my day, what I'm trying to tell you is sometimes we miss things that might be of great interest because it looks a little shady. Some times the places that aren't polished and trimmed are the most interesting places to visit. Little cafes, old warehouses, and apple orchards can be more fun and bring more joy than a fancy, expensive restaurant or an over priced, over sized department store. So take the beaten path and explore things you wouldn't normally look twice at. you might just find something exciting, interesting, different. Buying apples at the grocery store is so safe, but why not take a chance and buy them at an orchard out of town. They probably taste better but you'd never know that unless you try. take the time to enjoy the small things. the beaten path goes more interesting ways than you'd think.

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