How the Government Shut-Down is Affecting Paige's Journey

This post is not a political post.  I'm not going to talk about my view of the government shut down.  (I can't believe it's even still going on, by the way).  But it irks me when the shut down is influencing things as unrelated to government as this healthy journey that Paige and I are on.

Yes, you heard it right.  The government shut down is affecting Paige's Transformation.

It was our weekly scheduled workout, when Paige and I meet on Fridays for our workout.  This time, I was going to show Paige my favorite park to exercise in, in Columbus, MS.  Ironically, it's only a few miles from Paige's house, and eventually, she'll be able to run there (more on the future running star to come).  So, it never would have occurred to me, that a park, in the middle of Columbus, MS, had any ties to the federal government.  Well, apparently the Lock & Dam is a federal park, and the driveway was chained off.  We figured that there'd be no park rangers there to patrol (since they're not working either), so we walked past the "park closed" sign.  Not 10 seconds later, but an old retired man and his yippy dog, from his trailer outside the park, waved us down, as if the world was ending, and told us that the park police would "get us" if we used the park  (maybe not exactly in those words, but that's what I heard).  No one was allowed inside, and apparently the park rangers (whom I've never ever seen in 2 years), have asked him to be the "park police" in their absence.

It's not that Paige and I wanted to break any rules, but I really wanted her to experience what a "lock and dam" workout would be like. Those of you who've been there with me, know all the fun stuff we can do in that park!

So, we left and headed back to Paige's house, where we did the October Trainer In Your Back Pocket Total Body Workout.  Well, first we ran 5 minutes to "warm up" then we did walking lunges up her driveway.  Then we began the workout.  The whole time, I mentioned how this workout was nothing, compared to what we were going to be doing at the park.    Needless to say, Paige was probably quite glad that the park was closed!  So, thanks government, for helping Paige out, this one time!