climbing

We went to our first rock climbing class tonight- basically we just had to get checked off that we know the knots & proper safety procedures, and now we can go climb at the wall any time it's open. It was really fun, but I'm dreadfully rusty- I don't think I've climbed in the past 5 years. The first route I did was overhanging most of the way- my forearms were really burning! It's going to be good exercise; I need to remember to keep my gymnastics skills up too.

In other news, we were up in Portland for late family Christmas. It was nice to see everyone (my brother shocked everyone by coming to dinner at my Mom's, and then there was a bowling party for the oldest boy's birthday on Saturday). It was great to see Tina & Patrick too, who were in town for the holidays- it's sad when friends move so far away- Grad school, hmph! We went out to Thai food with Mindy & Alan & Eli (I gave my yummy leftovers to a guy on the street who said "Please, I don't want money, but I'm hungry- could you buy me some FOOD??"- he was happy). Next time we have to be sure to see Brandy and Evan! I wish we had more time to spend there- we didn't get all our errands done either. It snowed just a tiny bit.