Sunday, June 8, 2008

Mountain Climbing!

Yesterday we went with some friends to climb a local mountain. Since most of the mountains we have seen in this country seemed overrated (in this country's defense we have only seen 1 other mountain), we thought it would be no problem...especially since we were told the entire climb would be up stairs. It took us about 8 hard hours to climb that stinking mountain! These are not normal stairs. They are narrow and very steep. Since L is pregnant we tried to stop and rest often, but even our non pregnant friends needed just as many rests as well. The view from the top of the mountain was well worth everything, but more than once I think everyone wondered if we would survive the mountain. L's knee hurt really bad towards the end, and K thought he may have to carry her down.

This is a photo of us at the beginning - nice and fresh looking!

















After about 5 hours of climbing stairs up the side of the mountain, we finally made it!!!













K taking in the view.














This is a photo of L "hanging" off of the side of the mountain.

















All in all, it was an exhausting but rewarding day. We started climbing the stairs about 8:30 am, and we finished around 4:30 pm. We thought the stairs up the mountain were never ending, but then we thought the same thing about the stairs down the mountain.

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