Rock climbing

We spent much of the weekend looking at bicycles for Gretchen which took us out to REI for long afternoons.  To be fair, most of the time spent was due to the understaffing at all the bicycle shops around town and because the warm spring weather brought out all the bicycle purchasers in the Twin Cities.

While we were waiting, Lars and Brita decided they wanted to do some rock climbing.

Brita climbed right up the rock.  I thought she would go to the top, but she got spooked by a man coming down the other side and dropped down the other side.

Lars went up close to Brita’s height before he got scared.  Still, you can see he went up a couple of stories before coming down.

The scariest part for me was watching them come back down.  It wasn’t easy for either Brita or Lars, and it looked like it hurt a bit.  But everyone made it down without scrapes.  If the line hadn’t been so long, I am sure they would have done it again.