Family

Left-Right- Joseph,Lindsey,me-Jessi, Carli, my mom, Lawson, my Dad

Today I went to Chattanooga with my parents, Carli and Lawson to visit my brother Joseph and his wife Lindsey. We went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant. After the meal we were able to go rock climbing. Lindsey works for a rock climbing company so we went to the wall that she works at. Lindsey belayed while we climbed..so our lives were in her hands...we're all still alive, so she is trustworthy. Joseph and I reminisced about the good old days when we would go to this rock quarry near my grandparents house and rock climb...without a harness or anything. My mom apparently was not privy to the fact that when we would go there that we climbed, or at least if she did know that little peice of info she was not aware that in most parts it was about 50 feet high with a rock bottom and in other part above water it was higher. I didn't climb above the water (only above the rock.) Joseph did once when he dropped his shoe and had to climb down to the water to fish it out. Joseph and I had a great time climbing back there. It's a good thing that we never fell. Those were fun times..but I don't know that it was that smart of us. At the time it seemed like a great idea...we didn't have money or a way to climb with the harness and all or go to a rock wall made for that, but we did have this free rock quarry to climb. After climbing we went to the market (like a carft fair.) Then to walk around by the river. I was a fun day and I enjoyed seeing Joseph and Lindsey.

Rain

This morning as I heard the rain falling I snuggled deeper into my covers. My window was open and invited in the slightly cool breeze. My bed felt so good, like strong arms telling me to relaxing in their safety. My eyes feel dreamily back down...then the alarm in my head started going off saying "don't forget you have a math test! test! test!" My sleepy body argued back..."you should sleep! Relax! SLEEP!!!" I laid in bed for a minute more wishing that I could stay there ALL DAY! Yes it was that kind of morning lazy, rainy, dreamy. I wanted to get out of bed late, read all day and eat soup, but I got up, got ready and trudged to school. After the short drive to Columbia State I sat in my car watching the rain pour down my window. I sighed at the thought of running across the parking lot to the school where my test awaited me. As I dodged rain drops I wished for my rain boats and huge umbrella that I left in Honduras. I felt like sitting down right there and writing a book or something lovely...it was then that I realized that rain inspires me to write. Well as it was I sat down and did a bunch a math problems...some of them were word problems..but it wasn't quite the same as writing. I was in school all day. I wrote nothing lovely, I didn't write a book, but I did decide to come home and write a blog. I hope to do a better job of writing more regularly and posting it. I have been writing a lot, some journaling and of course LOTS of papers for school. But my blog is more of a creative outlet for me, so I'll do some pondering and meet you back here sometime soon, maybe the next time the rain pours......