Rock climbing!
Because of the holiday on Monday, everybody but me had the day off from school. I took the afternoon off from work, and we went rock climbing. It's one of our favorite winter activities - indoors, physical, and everyone in the family can participate. It's also a lot of fun to watch Maria climb - she is utterly fearless and will scale any wall in the building.
First order of business is to get into harnesses:
We started out with some bouldering - climbing on low walls without the benefit of the belaying rope.
Nick made a beeline to his favorite spot, where he can hang upside down:
Before long it was time to get on the ropes and climb up high:
Your intrepid reporter didn't do any belay climbing, but spent the afternoon scurrying around to hang out with the kids:
Most of what we see of Maria at the rock gym looks like this... a rapidly disappearing speck up high on the wall:
Nick did some impressive work this time, too, climbing all the way to the top of a rope ladder suspended in open space:
Grandma, I assure you this is all very safe - as one of the staff members kept saying to the kids, "This rope could hold a car, and the rope is bolted to the floor. You're not going anywhere."
First order of business is to get into harnesses:
We started out with some bouldering - climbing on low walls without the benefit of the belaying rope.
Nick made a beeline to his favorite spot, where he can hang upside down:
Before long it was time to get on the ropes and climb up high:
Your intrepid reporter didn't do any belay climbing, but spent the afternoon scurrying around to hang out with the kids:
Most of what we see of Maria at the rock gym looks like this... a rapidly disappearing speck up high on the wall:
Nick did some impressive work this time, too, climbing all the way to the top of a rope ladder suspended in open space:
Grandma, I assure you this is all very safe - as one of the staff members kept saying to the kids, "This rope could hold a car, and the rope is bolted to the floor. You're not going anywhere."
