stairs ? no thanks
I'm officially back home for at least another week until I leave for BSC training in Irvine. This past week has been so much fun and it's been nice to get out of the house/so cal for a while.
let me break it down
yosemite/half dome
I DID IT!! I SURVIVED!!! hahaha. I was expecting the worse, and I pretty much got what I expected.. and then some. My nasal passages were clogged & I had a sore throat so it was already hard for me to breathe. We did it in 11 hours (yoonji & her dad did it in about 9 hours last year but I'm slow haha.. and at one point we lost track of yoonji's dad's friend who came w/ us) but 10-12 hrs is the norm for .. normal people haha. So that's 8.2 miles up and 8.2 miles back down. 8,836ft from sea level. The stairs really are neverending and the 15-20 minutes on the stairmaster each gym session accounted for maybe.. 5 minutes on the actual trail lol. It was really intense but DEFINITELY worth it. Feels good to say that I actually did it! Don't know if I'll ever do it again though.. once is enough for me!! About 2/3 of the way up the cable climb, my right calf started to cramp up so I had to just rest on one of the wooden planks for a couple of minutes. For maybe a split second, I thought about going back down... my mind was telling me no but my body was telling me yes.. LOL. but no, there was no room for chickening out, especially since i had come so far and I was sooo close!! The elevation didn't scare me as much as I thought I would.. I was more scared about losing grip/slipping and falling to my death. The next day my fingers hurt so much from holding on so tight. I don't understand how kids younger than me can do it. Oh and there was a squirrel @ the top lol. HOW DID IT GET THERE!!
post-yosemite/half dome
SORE. SORE SORE SORE SORE SORE SORE. I think I've had worse sore days from bball but this was pretty freakin bad. We had to let people pass us @ the barnes & noble staircase because we were walking so slow. and we looked so stupid hahaha.. but it was a lot of fun laughing at ourselves. it hurt to just step off of the curb into the street. and it got worse the next day -___- . we also ate A LOT but thats nothing new. theres some good food places over there, and yoonji's parents' restaurant is REALLY GOOD. i'm sure the sushi/seafood dishes tasted great too. we went out to pismo beach but it was so unbelievably cloudy there that we just walked around left. ooh and we also got to play pool a couple times @ the cal poly SLO game place & at some restaurant. i had lots of fun.. and i realized i love train rides.. its so relaxing, esp. w/ music. i'd ride the train again just for fun lol. long story short, union station messed up and i got a free extra 1 way ticket. hmmmm, the possibilities....
big bear
church retreat was fun. the 18 was closed because of the fire, and they didn't close off the road until higher up the mountain, so when we pretty close to where we were supposed to be, we had to go ALLLLLL the way back the mountain, back on the 10, and then we took the 38 which was an alternate route. so in total, we were on the road for about 4 or 5 hours. eeesh. it was diff this year since it was in a cabin instead of a camp site. and my mom cooked the food so it was of course GREAT! ahah. mmmm. everything we had to eat this weekend was seriously sooo good. the youth room was THE best room in the house. w/ the exception of the narrow walkway that has like.. this cubicle you can hide in and scare ppl. so of course ppl made use of that!! -___- . it was the attic but it was pretty spacious. we fit 9 ppl in there. nice tv, nice sound system, and futons galore! there was also a sauna type thing in the bathroom, and a jacuzzi outside. it was a pretty nice jacuzzi and it had a little waterfall thing that you could turn on and off. i wouldn't mind owning that house.. haha. it rained super hard today on the way back and there was so much traffic. its literally 20 degrees cooler there right now. O_O
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other than that i'm kinda worried right now cause i don't have a roommate. its a long story but if you want to know you i'll tell you later. my fingers are getting tired. i'm supposed to meet a girl tomorrow so i really hope she's cool and at least tolerable!! rsladkhg
i think im gonna go to 24 tonight..
let me break it down
yosemite/half dome
I DID IT!! I SURVIVED!!! hahaha. I was expecting the worse, and I pretty much got what I expected.. and then some. My nasal passages were clogged & I had a sore throat so it was already hard for me to breathe. We did it in 11 hours (yoonji & her dad did it in about 9 hours last year but I'm slow haha.. and at one point we lost track of yoonji's dad's friend who came w/ us) but 10-12 hrs is the norm for .. normal people haha. So that's 8.2 miles up and 8.2 miles back down. 8,836ft from sea level. The stairs really are neverending and the 15-20 minutes on the stairmaster each gym session accounted for maybe.. 5 minutes on the actual trail lol. It was really intense but DEFINITELY worth it. Feels good to say that I actually did it! Don't know if I'll ever do it again though.. once is enough for me!! About 2/3 of the way up the cable climb, my right calf started to cramp up so I had to just rest on one of the wooden planks for a couple of minutes. For maybe a split second, I thought about going back down... my mind was telling me no but my body was telling me yes.. LOL. but no, there was no room for chickening out, especially since i had come so far and I was sooo close!! The elevation didn't scare me as much as I thought I would.. I was more scared about losing grip/slipping and falling to my death. The next day my fingers hurt so much from holding on so tight. I don't understand how kids younger than me can do it. Oh and there was a squirrel @ the top lol. HOW DID IT GET THERE!!
post-yosemite/half dome
SORE. SORE SORE SORE SORE SORE SORE. I think I've had worse sore days from bball but this was pretty freakin bad. We had to let people pass us @ the barnes & noble staircase because we were walking so slow. and we looked so stupid hahaha.. but it was a lot of fun laughing at ourselves. it hurt to just step off of the curb into the street. and it got worse the next day -___- . we also ate A LOT but thats nothing new. theres some good food places over there, and yoonji's parents' restaurant is REALLY GOOD. i'm sure the sushi/seafood dishes tasted great too. we went out to pismo beach but it was so unbelievably cloudy there that we just walked around left. ooh and we also got to play pool a couple times @ the cal poly SLO game place & at some restaurant. i had lots of fun.. and i realized i love train rides.. its so relaxing, esp. w/ music. i'd ride the train again just for fun lol. long story short, union station messed up and i got a free extra 1 way ticket. hmmmm, the possibilities....
big bear
church retreat was fun. the 18 was closed because of the fire, and they didn't close off the road until higher up the mountain, so when we pretty close to where we were supposed to be, we had to go ALLLLLL the way back the mountain, back on the 10, and then we took the 38 which was an alternate route. so in total, we were on the road for about 4 or 5 hours. eeesh. it was diff this year since it was in a cabin instead of a camp site. and my mom cooked the food so it was of course GREAT! ahah. mmmm. everything we had to eat this weekend was seriously sooo good. the youth room was THE best room in the house. w/ the exception of the narrow walkway that has like.. this cubicle you can hide in and scare ppl. so of course ppl made use of that!! -___- . it was the attic but it was pretty spacious. we fit 9 ppl in there. nice tv, nice sound system, and futons galore! there was also a sauna type thing in the bathroom, and a jacuzzi outside. it was a pretty nice jacuzzi and it had a little waterfall thing that you could turn on and off. i wouldn't mind owning that house.. haha. it rained super hard today on the way back and there was so much traffic. its literally 20 degrees cooler there right now. O_O
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other than that i'm kinda worried right now cause i don't have a roommate. its a long story but if you want to know you i'll tell you later. my fingers are getting tired. i'm supposed to meet a girl tomorrow so i really hope she's cool and at least tolerable!! rsladkhg
i think im gonna go to 24 tonight..