Wine, Trapeze & Switzerland
Today it is -29 outside. -29...yup and with the windchill the weather people says it feels like -40. Colder than it was yesterday. I was walking outside yesterday and it was stupid, stupid cold. So nice to hear that it's even colder today. However, I have better things to look forward to.
On Friday I leave for California. When I was visiting Michele in September she was enticing me back to visit with talk of a wine festival in the Livermore Valley. "Come back for a pure eating and drinking visit" she says, to which I readily agreed. Who wouldn't? It turns out she does have some malevolent intentions. She mentions in an email that she's planning to book me into a Trapeze lesson while I'm there. Michele has talked about Trapeze before as a really good way to train for mixed climbing. Gadd and I talked about Trapeze, hell I even did up a joke on Will pasting his head onto trapeze people with the RedBull logo emblazened across his crotch, since he was saying how much he'd like to try it. He tells me the folks at RedBull liked the joke and I didn't get sued for copyright infringement so its all good. But me, myself and I never had any intention of trying trapeze or evening thinking I'd like to try trapeze ever. I figured it was for wing-nuts like Michele and Will. Turns out I might be trying it myself - eek.
Yesterday I booked a flight to Basel Switzerland wowooohoooo!! Looks like this will be the best December ever. Tom and I are going to head there for Christmas to ice climb and visit friends of Tom's. I've never been there and I'm over the top excited about it. Sure my credit card has become dangerously hot to the touch and will continue to be so and yes it may be impractical to spend alot of money on a plane ticket to only go for 10 days and of course Switzerland is probably one of the most expensive places to visit and I don't care about any of that. Tom's friends sound like crazy climber-folk who are happy to have us.
So California, then trapeze, then plenty of wine and food to recover from trapeze, then back to Calgary, then some local ice climbing (thanks to the cold weather everything should be in by the time I get back, then Switzerland for Christmas. Now I just have to figure out what trouble I can get myself into for New Years....!
On Friday I leave for California. When I was visiting Michele in September she was enticing me back to visit with talk of a wine festival in the Livermore Valley. "Come back for a pure eating and drinking visit" she says, to which I readily agreed. Who wouldn't? It turns out she does have some malevolent intentions. She mentions in an email that she's planning to book me into a Trapeze lesson while I'm there. Michele has talked about Trapeze before as a really good way to train for mixed climbing. Gadd and I talked about Trapeze, hell I even did up a joke on Will pasting his head onto trapeze people with the RedBull logo emblazened across his crotch, since he was saying how much he'd like to try it. He tells me the folks at RedBull liked the joke and I didn't get sued for copyright infringement so its all good. But me, myself and I never had any intention of trying trapeze or evening thinking I'd like to try trapeze ever. I figured it was for wing-nuts like Michele and Will. Turns out I might be trying it myself - eek.
Yesterday I booked a flight to Basel Switzerland wowooohoooo!! Looks like this will be the best December ever. Tom and I are going to head there for Christmas to ice climb and visit friends of Tom's. I've never been there and I'm over the top excited about it. Sure my credit card has become dangerously hot to the touch and will continue to be so and yes it may be impractical to spend alot of money on a plane ticket to only go for 10 days and of course Switzerland is probably one of the most expensive places to visit and I don't care about any of that. Tom's friends sound like crazy climber-folk who are happy to have us.
So California, then trapeze, then plenty of wine and food to recover from trapeze, then back to Calgary, then some local ice climbing (thanks to the cold weather everything should be in by the time I get back, then Switzerland for Christmas. Now I just have to figure out what trouble I can get myself into for New Years....!
posted by Lise B at Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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