++ I'M A BIT BURNED, from this weekend. heather is past fire engine red and borders on the crimson red, the only difference being she is in seering pain and i'm just darker now. the perks (one of some) of being asian. smith was hot. a long drive (6 hours) but worth it. we slept in the car (again) on friday night after we got there, because we wer eboth too tired to pitch the tent. i bought lots of trad climbing gear (because i can't afford it, so i did) abd didn't use it. but i will soon. heather did some leading on sport, which was awesome! she was too scared at first to lead, but she just needed some good easy warm-up routes to get going and then it was off to the races. half of it is fear. its not that either of us can't climb 5.9. we are just too pansy of falling, so we get wussy. and really wussy, so much so that 5.6 and 5.7 seem scary. heather did her first multi-pitch route, granted it was a sport climb, but still, multi-pitch and it was very cool. we ticked off five climbs in a day and a half, which now that i think about it doesn't sound like much. but it was plenty to make me good and tired.

upcoming schedule:
.today-climbing (stone gardens)
.tuesday-sailing (duck dodge)
.wednesday-climbing (stone gardens)
.thursday-archichoke/enginerd volleball league (thursday group. r1 schedule)
.friday-i don't know yet!
.saturday-REI free kayak demo
.sunday-climbing at leavenworth? ++