ten thousand steps.

I got this pedometer a few weeks ago (mostly because I was curious), and in general the consensus seems that it's healthy to walk 10,000 steps a day.* I checked my stats and over the past week I averaged 10121 steps per day. Not bad, especially considering that I only walked about 3500 steps on Sunday. I think that a big part of it is that it's nice outside (for the most part), and also that I went out a lot last week (dinners, happy hours, baseball games, etc).

I noticed that today I was only at about 7000 steps, so I took advantage of the fact that it's still summer (despite some recent cooler weather), and walked out to Kerry Park.



I tried out this gimmick filter that Melissa bought last week that blurs the edges of the photo. It sort of worked, but it took some patience to get the camera to still focus on something (the first one I tried blurred the entire photo).

Also, you can't really see it, but Mt. Rainier was out there to the right of the Washington Mutual Tower.

I always enjoy the view from Kerry Park, and today was no exception. It was really pretty, but as usual, still really crowded. Lots of photographers, kids in pajamas, cute little puppies. I felt a little out of place, but still lingered a bit to watch the glow in the sky fade away.

*Fun fact: Erma told me that in Korea the word for "pedometer" is something along the lines of "10,000 step machine."