Wow- what a week! As the school year wraps up, a lot of other activities tend to come at the same time and we have definitely been busy parents. Rather than write about this whole week at once though, we will save some things and highlight certain kids individually in later posts. For now, we'll focus mostly on us as a family.
Actually, first we'll focus on Rachel and me. We had heard of a little climbing competition that was happening and we thought we'd check it out. The idea was to see who could do the most routes on a certain cliff in a 48 hour period. Spoiler alert- I climbed every route there in less than 6 hours, sight unseen, and with no falls (onsight). For those who care, that is 24 pitches, ranging from 5.7 to 5.12a in difficulty. I feel good about that. Rachel also led four climbs and didn't take any falls either. It was a fun day of climbing. We gracefully (I think) bowed out of the competition because we didn't think it would be sportsmanlike to stay in, but we kept climbing and made some new friendships along the way with other participants. That night we hung out around a campfire until well past dark, told old climbing stories, played the ukulele, and watched climbing movies. Climbers are cool, and it was a good time.
The next morning we woke up and packed our trailer before heading out to Priest Lake with the crew. A quick drive got us there and it wasn't long before we were exploring, swimming, eating, and just hanging out as a family. There really isn't too much more to say. Camping has become very easy for us, and it seems that there is some sort of mountain magic that makes it so that people just get along better.
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| Most obnoxious kid ever. Don't even know who he belongs to, but I'm pretty sure Rachel was ready to throw him off the dock and then laugh at him. And she's not a mean person. But this kid... |
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| No more obnoxious kid. Ahhh. |
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