Friday: Me, Ryan, and his dad decided to go out to Stone Mountain. This was my first time ever climbing and it was not what I expected. While we did spend some time walking along a trail through the woods, we also did a good amount of climbing up this wall of granite. It was amazing, but so hard. I definitely realized just how out of shape I am. Once we got up to the summit we hung out for a little bit and then began trying to find the waterfall there. The waterfall was absolutely amazing! Ryan and I climbed up along the side of it so that we could walk out to a dry spot somewhat in the middle...it was so cool and so much fun! After that we made our way back to the car and went to dinner, then I went to Meghan's house for the night.
Saturday: Meghan had to get up early for work, so I didn't get to spend the day with her then either. Once I got up, I waited for Ryan to come pick me up. We then went back to his house and waited for his sister, Angela; his brother in-law, Brian; and his friend, Eric. Once they got there, all of us, including his dad, left for Hanging Rock. When I had woken up that morning my legs were sore, so I was really hoping we wouldn't do a whole lot of climbing, but I was completely wrong. I think we actually did more than the day before. We walked up this trail that came out to a watch tower and a pretty cool area of rock that me, Ryan, Eric, and Brian climbed out on. After hanging out there for a little while, we all made our way back and then headed over to the lower cascades. The waterfall there was so pretty! We all did our own little exploring of the area, which was a lot of fun. Ryan, Eric, and Brian ended up climbing up the side of the falls, going across, and climbing out to this ledge above it. When they got back and told me where they had been, I knew I really wanted to go. I convinced Eric and Ryan to go back up with me, but I had no idea what I was getting into. We walk up a little bit through the woods and then get to this part that was nothing but a vertical wall of rock and they tell me I have to free climb up it. Now, I've climbed numerous fake rock walls at the Y and I'm pretty good at it, but there you have the comfort of knowing you have a harness and there's normally a mat below you. Here, we had to do basically the same thing just without a harness and if you fall, there's no mat below you...just a long hard fall down. I was terrified and stood there for a few minutes trying to tell them there was no way I could do that while they kept telling me I could. I don't know what came over me, but I eventually was just like FINE and started climbing it. I slipped once which freaked me the heck out, naturally ha, but I did make it. And of course, Ryan decides to tell me afterwards, "for your second day climbing, you really shouldn't have attempted that." I was shaking for the longest time afterwards and it didn't help that there were parts of the rest of the climb to the ledge that you really had to be careful on...if you missed a step, you'd pretty much fall to your death. But we did get there and it really was worth the experience and story. After that, we headed back down and out to the car to go home. That night I went to downtown Winston-Salem with Meghan and her boyfriend, Chris, for dinner. We ended up at Foothills Brewery surrounded by a ton of drunk people screaming at the Wake Forest game on T.V. One of Chris's friends, who's name I really cannot remember, met us there for dinner and afterwards we all walked around until about 11. Downtown Winston is def an interesting place to walk around in at night, that's for sure. We then headed back home, where me and Meghan crashed.
Sunday: I was so exhausted the next morning that I skipped church...first Sunday in probably about 8 months that I haven't been to church, weird. I got up a little later and got ready to make the trip back with Ryan. Once we got back to MACU, it was like getting back to reality. That night was filled with so much drama from so many directions it was insane. But once I got home after class Monday night, life started to calm down and so far my week has been good.
This will probably be my only post for the next few days, but I'm still trying to keep it a regular thing. I'm so stoked for spring break because there's a good chance I will be spending Sunday-Friday morning RVing somewhere, probably S.C., with the younger siblings and my cousin; and then I'm being a sponsor for two girls for Oasis at MACU Friday-Sunday. It's going to be awesome.
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