climbing, moving, and good friends

What a day! we are all totally wiped out after starting an early morning climbing at Garden of the Gods, then spending the rest of the day moving heavy stuff! My good friends from med school, Dee and Justin, now live in Denver, and were extremely gracious to offer help moving. I think Justin was seriously reconsidering that offer as he and cris were hauling hundreds of pounds of treadmill up the basement stairs...but we all survived :) the house is nearly empty. we really liked living in this house...it is so big compared to our little hawaii house, and we all enjoyed the extra space, and the big yard. we are sad to be leaving it!
anyway, we had a great morning at Garden of the Gods. Justin had never been climbing, and wanted to try it out. Cris is always happy to find an excuse to pull out his harness, rope and shoes. The girls are at a great age to just explore, and had so much fun checking out the rock formations in the area around the route we were climbing.Justin did great on his first ever climbing attempt. He made it up both routes we tried. Dee was ready to hop right up on the rock too, but her 25 week pregnant belly kept her on the ground :) maybe next time, Dee! this was just before Justin"almost died" - his first fall :) climbing at Garden of the Gods is kind of a funny experience. Because the area is a big tourist attraction, there are tons and tons of people around. Cris and Justin drew quite the crowd. The crowd watched Justin in great suspense...There was a crowd-wide gasp when he fall, and then spontaneous applause when he reached the top...talk about pressure! :)

by the time we set up a route for the girls to climb, they had kind of lost their momentum. Nova didn't even want to get on the rock, and Juneau gave it a half-hearted effort. maybe next time, girls :)

When I looked over at Juneau today i saw her with the pre-wrap and the tape, wrapping up her wrists like she saw Cris do last time we climbed! Future Athletic Trainer!

She got a little over-zealous taping her knees...still need some taping practice, Jbug!

The girls didn't make it very far once we got in the car before they were wiped out....

Justin too.... In spite of expending some serious energy on the rock, Cris and Justin knocked out some big time moving. We got basically all of our furniture moved out of the house and into storage, and we are down to just some little boxes and small stuff. Now if I only had orders, we would be all set! Thanks for an awesome day, Dee and Justin! we had a great time, and wish we would be around for more adventures (and to see Baby P when he makes his appearance in a few months!)