challenges from africa

When I get up I usual check my phone to see if a student called or texted me. Usually they don't. But they are clueless when it comes to time zones.

Instead I had a message from Angel — who's in Djibouti right now— challenging me on FitBit to a daily showdown challenge. Normally, she kicks my butt just working retail, but strolling all over Africa I didn't stand a chance. My reply "Heck no. You two are in Africa! No way I can compete in the pouring rain in Pa. Plus, you are with M. The two of you will clean my clock. You are already 10K ahead and there is only 15 hours left in the challenge."

She replied calling me a "spoil sport". Since I am not glued to my phone, I didn't know that until much later in the day.

I still had the tweens device and she hadn't picked it up yet. The rain seemed to have stopped, so I considered walking in Palmer and dropping off her device. Then the phone rang. They were on their way over.

She was excited to hear that she got steps while the device was "lost." Once I found it, I hooked it to my purse. If I had my purse with me, it registered. When they arrived I gave her the device. She went out to the car to sync her device to daddy's phone. In that 30 seconds it started to pour. Then stopped. She was walking back and forth in my living room getting steps, driving the roomie nuts. (Score one for the tween!)

Since it was now dry, I asked her if she wanted to walk instead of walking in the living room. She said "no." I said "relatively flat with a playground half-way," knowing how the child cannot resist a playground. Again "no." Turns out they were going to Grammy's and she has a tablet, internet, AND a video game. Clearly there was no competition. 

After they left I decided to walk anyway. Thank goodness I took an umbrella. It poured for at least ten minutes. I took the scenic route to the Wawa in Fountain Hill. The roomie needed money from the ATM.

When I returned home, I checked the phone and found the "spoil sport" message and joined the challenge. Angel and M were already around 20K. I came in 2nd last, before the tween. Maybe it was because of the time difference, but M's friend won the challenge with well over 20K steps.

I'm just happy I got my butt out there. In the rain.