根据汉语提示完成下面短文中所缺单词，（注意词形变化）（每空一词）。

Today, just as the school was over, my father came to pick me up and go 　(家). Just then, an old bus appeared behind our car. I used to ride this bus every ＿＿＿（天） to school in 6th grade, and　　（多么） a good time we had!
I ＿　（花费）a lot of my time on that bus, whether laughing and talking, or ＿＿（恰好） enjoying the fine scenery of the city, as the bus took its daily route over the hills,【小题6】__（穿过） the valleys(山谷), onto the highway, and finally, into the parking lot of my school.
That bus was a big part of my everyday _____（生活）. And that old and always cheerful bus driver would take us on the long way to school to view beautiful places, like the _____（海滩）, parks, even towns we had never seen ＿＿（以前）. Our school teachers wouldn’t mark us as being late, even if we were an _____（小时） or so late to school.
Anyway, when I saw that bus, I recognized it right now. I told my dad that that was the bus I used to ride in.