Spring Break, Theories with Annie, and UCI
So I went to Yosemite for spring break. Bass Lake, more specifically. Ann-Mari's parents let us use their cabin up there. We went down to the valley almost every day to enjoy the beauty, despite the many attempts by mini vans to slow us down. The first day we just got used to the altitude and did lower Yosemite falls. The second day was the only big hike we could do, which was Vernal and Nevada falls. We took the mist trail up Vernal falls, despite it being closed. Once we got on it we realized why they had closed it. We survived though, and at the top we sat on a big rock in the stream, had our lunch, and just laid back on eachother facing the sky for a quick cat nap. After a little break we continued up to Nevada falls, but we only got half way up it before we hit our turnaround time, which is good since it looked like rain. We decided to take the John Muir trail back, since it was the opened one, and it made the mist trail look like a walk in the park (no pun intended). There were parts where the switch backs were completely covered in snow, so we couldn't take them. Instead we had to kick the melted and re-frozen snow into step. We joked about it, but it actually was pretty hazardous. We were hugging the mountain, and still nearly standing straight up. We felt accomplished afterwards.
That being our only big hike, since the others were closed still from snow, we spent the rest of the week on little day hikes, geocaching, or exploring the history of the national park. One day I would like to hike all of the John Muir trail. I would need to learn how to get my own food from the wild first, probably. Would be quite the accomplishment though.
So obviously Annie and I didn't stay broken up. She texted me the morning after our break up with "Please tell me last night didn't happen." We talked and tried to find the real source of the breakup. We couldn't really, but we gave it another go anyways. It was a little weird until halfway through the Yosemite trip. We were both afraid to give anything our all because the relationship was so fragile. But on the last night that we were there we were talking in bed and she rolls over, looks me dead in the eye, and says, "I love you Alex. That scares me, but I do." It really caught me off guard. I honestly thought the signs I was reading were pointing towards us not making it after the trip, but then I put it together. Here's a girl that is used to always having control, and always having guys fall in love with her way before she falls for them. Now she feels the free fall of caring for someone rapidly, and she's not sure if I'm keeping pace. I'd like to believe that that's where the doubts came from for the breakup. It's a little romantic... So now we're good again. We're not on edge, and we're not testing eachother. We're just there for eachother. It's nice =)
Oh yea. In other news, UCI accepted me for the fall. The feelings of complete failure have lifted. THAT's a pit I'm glad to be out of.
That being our only big hike, since the others were closed still from snow, we spent the rest of the week on little day hikes, geocaching, or exploring the history of the national park. One day I would like to hike all of the John Muir trail. I would need to learn how to get my own food from the wild first, probably. Would be quite the accomplishment though.
So obviously Annie and I didn't stay broken up. She texted me the morning after our break up with "Please tell me last night didn't happen." We talked and tried to find the real source of the breakup. We couldn't really, but we gave it another go anyways. It was a little weird until halfway through the Yosemite trip. We were both afraid to give anything our all because the relationship was so fragile. But on the last night that we were there we were talking in bed and she rolls over, looks me dead in the eye, and says, "I love you Alex. That scares me, but I do." It really caught me off guard. I honestly thought the signs I was reading were pointing towards us not making it after the trip, but then I put it together. Here's a girl that is used to always having control, and always having guys fall in love with her way before she falls for them. Now she feels the free fall of caring for someone rapidly, and she's not sure if I'm keeping pace. I'd like to believe that that's where the doubts came from for the breakup. It's a little romantic... So now we're good again. We're not on edge, and we're not testing eachother. We're just there for eachother. It's nice =)
Oh yea. In other news, UCI accepted me for the fall. The feelings of complete failure have lifted. THAT's a pit I'm glad to be out of.