Day Eight: A Walk Down Memory Lane and Lots and Lots of Books

As promised, today was much more eventful than yesterday. Because we are quite awesome, as you all know. We got up at about 7:20 and took mom and Jonathan to work so we could have the car. Then we drove back home to eat and finish getting ready.

We hit downtown at about 10 and walked around for a good while, popping in and out of little shops and checking out the cool (overpriced) things they had. We strayed away from downtown and found an Auburn University school-spirit store, Tiger Rags. I bought an Auburn shirt, of course. They had cute little baby shoes, which Hilary enjoyed quite a bit.

After that, I took Hilary down to my old junior high and showed her around campus, telling her where my old classes were and who my teachers were and where I met some of my friends. It was really fun to suddenly remember all those things from the year that I spent here. I hope I didn't bore her to death with all my random stories. Around the back of the school is this courtyard-type-lookin-thing (picture below), and if you stand in the middle and talked, you could hear yourself echo... But it wasn't really and echo, it was more like you were talking into your own ears... Yeah, I can't describe it, but Hilary and I found it quite fascinating.

After relaxing there for a bit, we headed back downtown and went to the famous Toomer's Drug store. Also known as Toomer's Corner. Toomer's lemonade is THE best lemonade in the world, hands down. They literally squeeze the lemons right in front of you and you can watch them make it from scratch and it is amazingly delicious! Hilary bought one and I got one for me and one for my mom. So then we walked over to the library where she works, and we were both shocked by the extremely cold air conditioning. I think I liked it more than Hilary. We delivered my mommy her lemonade, which she appreciated, and met some of her co-workers. And then we were off again!

There is this really sketchy shop behind a restaurant called "Da Gallery", and I've been in there before with a couple of my old friends, and I wanted to show Hilary it just because it was really weird... But when we got back there, it was a lot shadier than I remembered, so we just kinda stared at it for a minute and walked away. And that's all.

We weren't really hungry for lunch, but it was around two and we figured we should eat a little something before dinner, but we didn't want to fill ourselves. So we made the fantastically brilliant choice to go to the cute little frozen yogurt shop down the road. We shared 10 ounces of pure delight. A wonderful lunch, in my opinion. I think we sat in the little shop for an hour, just talking, munching on froyo and watching bits and pieces of The Office and Friends that happened to be playing on the TV there.

After much debate, and after Hilary tried to convince me that it wasn't that far to walk home, which made me laugh and complain, Hilary and I went back into the chilly library and wandered through seemingly endless bookshelves of thousands of reference books on every subject and person you could imagine. We didn't really have a mission, so I just took lots of random pictures.

We made it back to mom's office and waited a bit for her to get finished with work. So we chilled out in a conference room and Hilary drew a pretty spiffy picture of her friend and I just doodled as we listened to music. Not to much later, Jonathan picked us up and we were on our way home from a long day! Hilary and I took our leftover chili upstairs and watched two movies: The Tourist and Casino Royale, both of which neither of us had seen before. They were both pretty good, but Hilary and I were a little bummed that nothing in The Tourist blew up... Oh well.

And now the day has ended, and my nose is quite pink... Another adventure tomorrow! Thanks for reading!

--Sarah

Samford Hall at Auburn University