Rock climbing pleasure

Thanks first of all to all of those who wished us a happy anniversary. We both really apprecaite your thoughtful wishes! We had a BLAST! It really was so much fun! We had a personal class with a man named Pat. He actually ended up being the owner of the place. He climbed Devil's Tower around 100 times and is pretty amazing at climbing. Anyway, he taught us how to belay, how to tie the knots, and some technique to climbing. I was just lucky to climb and get to the top without worrying about what color of "rock" I was suppose to be using. It was a lot of fun though, and both Randy and I want to keep climbing. We enjoyed ourselves so much, and it really will be fun to keep at it. There is a place in Rochester that we are going to go to soon. However, renting the equipment is pretty silly especially if we are going to keep climbing. We decided to buy shoes and a harness, but we don't know when that will happen yet so renting will just have to do for now.

At the end of the day, our forearm muscles were SO sore that after three hours of climbing, we were fatigued. We then went to a hotel close to the gym and just hung out there the rest of the night. It was such a nice place, and they actually had ducks in the hotel. Randy was amazed by the ducks haha!! We tried to play with them, but they actually were not that habituated--haha!

The next day was Thanksgiving, and we both had a lot to be thankful for. We went to my parents house and had a great time. We enjoyed ourselves; however, that evening, I came down with the flu. It was horrible; I couldn't go shopping with Katie. I was SO disappointed about not being able to go, but it was pretty bad. I'm still getting over my sickness. Hopefully, I will get better soon. New favorite thing--Hallmark Christmas movies :)