Rock Walls and T-Shirts

Yesterday my Girl Scout troop went rock climbing at a place called Hanging High. Two hours of climbing is equal to two painful arms and hands. I had a lot of fun though.

Here's everyone from left to right:
Becca, Cheyenne, Danielle, Kat, Megan, Me, Tina, Briana. You can't see Journey. Tyler, Sydney, and Shanna weren't there.
Starting out. We had to learn to belay each other:

The first wall we had to accomplish. I was the very first one up:

Megan and I with Briana and Tina:

My mom really likes this pic. She's going to crop it to make it look like I'm on a real cliff. It's also the wall I whacked my head on....

This was the hardest wall in the whole place. It continues up the whole ceiling and over to the other side, like an arch. We were only aloud to go to the top:

Same wall. Since it was at such an angle, if you let go, you'd slam right into your belayer.

Megan slamming into me from that dang wall:

Megan and I are determined to get to the top of this wall. We'd get about half way, and just run out of energy and good rocks to grab. Our troop is going back tomorrow, so hopefully we'll get it! Wish us luck!

Also, if you notice in a couple of the pictures, there appear to be orbs. Hmm. Not quite sure how I feel about that. I have some others that are just packed with them. I saw them as I was looking through my camera on the way home yesterday. Maybe someone died there... The waiver we had to sign did say death could occur if you aren't careful. Well that'll give me something to think about...

After I got home from my little adventure, I made my Southern Gothic shirt. I had the words printed out so I just had to iron them on. Whatcha think?

(The front says "Southern Gothic Productions")

(The back says "Team Hellick") I was thinking I should add and "in" to Hellick for Austin, but I didn't want to reprint it. I suppose if you move some letters around it could still include him.