Blog. Blog.

Well...
I sure haven't posted in a long time.

So far this summer... Costa Rica. Which was amazing.
Then some boring time which consisted of me working, and not climbing and hanging out with friends from time to time.

Now... Ben is visiting! HOORAY! I missed him so much, it's been so amazing to have him around. It was really surreal for the first maybe... ten minutes. It just felt very strange... it's a hard thing to explain, sort of like having really harsh daja vous to the point that nothing feels quite real. However, after those ten minutes... it's just been great. He seems to get along with my parents. Which, of course, is very good.

So far we haven't done much. He spent the first day loitering with me at work. I felt sort of bad, I'm sure it was VERY boring for him. haha. =/ After we went climbing for a bit at Ute Valley. It's a neat area. It was a little frustrating for me considering I haven't really been climbing, butit wasn't too bad. (with the exception of showering and being nearly unable to wash my hair because of my hands hurting... hooray soap!)

Today Ben opted to stay home for most of my shift. But he's gonna bring me lunch and then hang out for a while. <3 what a nice boy!

And after that... the day is sort of mystery! So we'll see what it holds!

We're also planning a camping/climbing trip which should be greattttt fun. =D

More soon! (hopefully)


Ben and I after our last climb in Vedauwoo, WY. It was raining so we had to call it a day early, sadly. But we had a lot of fun. We climbed a multi-pitch route on the rock behind us. Meaning one person leads, putting gear into the rock as they go up... and the other person belays. Then when the person leading gets to a belay ledge where they can hook themselves into the rock and belay you from above as you climb and clean all the gear out of the rock. And then when you get to the ledge, you hook in. And they climb... the process continues till you're done! It was a lot of fun, we were there for two days but I wish we could have stayed longer. I'm definitely going back. We also climbed a multi-pitch at Garden of the Gods the day he left. We got up at 6:00 am and got in the car by 6:30 to make sure we'd have time to climb it and get him to his flight. It was a great end to the trip, and it was sort of fun to have a peanut gallery since it was a pretty easy, but REALLY fun climb.


Cute boy at Garden of the Gods. <3


My mom took some pictures of us the day he left, they're really cute. =) He seemed to hit it off with my parents. I think my dad still is sort of standoff-ish with the whole "serious boyfriend" thing, but they got along well. My mom really liked him though, which is great, cause I do too!

We both cried at the airport. Not TOO long till I get to see him again, I'll be at school about a week before he will. I miss him SO much, but it's also exciting to know I get to see him so soon again. We went way too long between leaving for summer and seeing each other, it got hard for a little while. However, in retrospect there was really only one week that was REALLY hard. Which is a really good sign I think.