You're young, you go first.

I went on a hike this Saturday. With Emily, her sister and an older man who works in Emily’s office. He wanted to lead me to this place. And I was impressed with his ability. While we were climbing, Emily told me he is 65 years old. Wow. It was a little rough in some places.

We had an awesome challenge at one point in the trail – we climbed up a steep cliff face covered with tree vines. There were ropes and footholds, but it was still awesome! I got really excited while the others stopped and stared for a minute. Emily said “You’re young. You go first.” And so I did!! I didn’t think to take a picture of it until I was partway up. Oops…

The old man didn’t remember the path very well. Example: we climbed down for 5 minutes and then were lost in a little valley. So we found a path and climbed back up to where we were before (or close). Then we saw the sign by this trail and climbed back down the same path since that is where we wanted to be. Ha ha!

It was a bit frustrating at the end when it was getting hot and close to lunch time – I was worried we wouldn’t be able to find the car. We all survived and with smiles on our faces. Emily’s sister and I got mosquito bites. Mine are centered on my elbows. I don’t get it.

We went to a hot-pot place for lunch. It was good, but I couldn’t eat all of it. They wouldn’t let me waste it so I cooked the extra food and took it home in a bag for dinner. This hot-pot place was cool because we had individual pots where we cooked our food. (I have gone to places where there is just one pot and I tend to forget what food is mine :)


Groupies, er, hikies.

View from the top

They're still climbing up while I'm relaxing at the top.

Victorious

Eating fruit

[Emily may kill me when she finds out I posted this one.]

I was messing around with her hat and just happened to capture her talking and looking tired in the background. I love it.

Pretty Pond
{funny -- Emily couldn't remember the word "frog" and spelled

'fork' for me in her attempt to remember. Har-har}

Emily resting at Pretty Pond

[I'm pretty sure she told me not to take a picture....]