Back to School or is it On the Road Again?

As you can see by the count down timer Corey and I don't have much time left before we say "see you later" to Twin Falls and head over to Rexburg as life changes yet again.

Everything is now in order:
Jobs in Rexburg? CHECK
Register for classes? CHECK
Find an Apartment? CHECK

Looks like we have the hard stuff taken care of for our Back to School checklist. Now the only things left to do are pack up and move. We will be hitting the road on August 30th so if anyone wants to come and keep me company while I pack, feel free, (I really just need someone to talk to me while I do it, I get lonely).

Finally Honeymoon Photos!!!

Sorry it's taken so long, hope you enjoy.

CITY!!!!

We, like everyone else, have been up to the usual, work, play, sleep, repeat. Due to weather we haven't gotten to go to the City of Rocks as much as Corey would like but we get out as much as we can. Here's how our last week of climbing has gone....

Monday last week we went down to Derkies and worked on Black thing, a pumpy, very over hung 11c. Corey lead and I followed making it all the way to the top taking breaks at each bolt because I am clearly not strong enough to make it the whole way in one shot just yet. The movement is fun and I can see why it is a popular route down there.

Then on thursday we invited my friend Laura and Tim to come with us for a very casual evening of climbing. They went and we all had a great time, or at least I did, I love seeing and spending time with friends. Laura I love you and hope you two had fun and that we'll get to do something again soon.

Friday Jeff, Pauline, and David came down from Nampa to tour CSI and then we all headed out to escape to the City of Rocks for the weekend. When we got there at 8 o'clock the first thing that we did was try and make it to the top of Little Time before dark, needless to say we forgot the head lamps (we had 1 tikka and 1 firefly) and only made it to the second pitch before the sun was gone and we all got to repel in the dark with the firefly as the landing light.

Sometime early Saturday morning Craig finally made it to us in one piece and slept in the back of his car. That morning we got up, snacked breakfast and headed out to Elephant rock to try Rye Crisp (Wheat Thin was busy).

From there we headed out to the back side of Window Rock, because we hadn't been there yet, and found some beautiful crack lines that were not to be passed up. This is one that we found that wasn't it the book. The start was a pain because there isn't much to hold on to, but it was really fun and a variety of techniques had to be used to get it.

The view from the top was amazing!!! It is always the best reward. In this picture you can see most of the upper City with Parking Lot rock in the near background, Bath in mid-background, and the Twin Sisters in the far distance.

Corey and my adopted husband, Craig even got to climb together this weekend. Most of the time one is belaying while the other is climbing but there were enough of us this trip that they finally got to see each other while on the rock. So one lead one route while one lead another side by side. Craig even climbed over to Corey's route to steal a piece of trad off of his harness, go figure.

The weekend was absolutely perfect. We even got a night climb in on Saturday night before we went to bed. It was very cool.

Going Green?

With gas prices soaring I have been considering "going green". It has become very tempting to start riding my horses to run all my errands in town. I think the local police would love it!! I have also thought of starting my own lawn mowing and fertilizing business. My only fall back is that I have no where in town to keep my horses. I still need to research any laws restricting me to turn to this alternative means of transportation. I think this is one way of "going green" that I can actually afford.

Enjoying the week of summer

Here in Twin Falls we had a small teaser of wonderful weather! It was wonderful and warm as it should be this time of year. The warmth only lasted for a week or two and is now back to what feels like March. Every year the weather gets stranger and stranger. I guess it is one of the signs of what is to come. Strange to think of it that way. Well, here are a couple of photos of us enjoying the small spell of warmth. We are bouldering a lot down at derkies. Roping up has seemed a hassle so we just throw out the pads and chill.

Jentri's first time on this project was in the night with a headlamp! She put it down without any trouble. The next day she decided to second it so she could see it. I took the photo opportunity.

After all of her hard work it was time for a nap in the hot sun. I tease her for being a lizard!

Craig came into town for the weekend and him, Tolman, and I worked on this new derkies project. As far as we know it has yet to see an accent.

And of course misty came too!

There are no photos of me because I'm the only one who picks up the camera. I also enjoy taking photos a lot. Hopefully our next post will show a bit of me?