50 thousand steps

Today, my mom and my dad walked 50 thousand steps (my mom made it to 52,500 by the end of the day and I only made it to 40k which I will explain later). This was something that a couple of weeks ago we said was impossible and would require walking for a very long time. Our adventure took about three quarters of the day. You might be wondering how we got so many steps. The answer is that my parents took ran around the Cataract Gorge. That got them 12,000 steps and is the reason why I only made it to 40k (I didn’t do the run). Then after the Brewers game was over, we walked over to the bird sanctuary/island which was a two hour walk from Launceston. That gave us 18,000 steps just on the walk over. The walk around gave us 3,000. Then in the middle of our walk back, we hit 40,000, but the total amount of steps of our walk back was 13,000 (I think we found a more direct route on our way back, and it was shorter distance wise). Then to end the day we got our final 4,000 taking a long walk -and even doubling- back to the house. But my dad was 2,000 behind so we went out and walked so more until he reached 50k on his watch. And that is how we made it to 50k, 50k, and 40k (Eli’s steps).       —Eli