Indoor Rock Climbing

Hello again everyone!

I just thought I would do a quick update on everything that has been going on until now.

This past Wednesday was not really exciting. I mainly just did homework and relax before OP.

On Thursday morning I woke up and was really excited about my OP class because we were either supposed to go sailing, surfing, or sea level traversing. The moment I looked out the window I realized we would not be doing any of those things because it was raining like crazy. Once we got outside to the minibus our instructor, James, told us that we would be indoor rock climbing and maybe we would take a short hike on our way back to the Conway Center.

We collected everything we needed from the Conway Center and drive to Beacon Climbing Center just outside Llanberis. It was so much fun climbing up the rock walls and I made it my goal to make it to the top every time. I succeeded! I also tried climbing up a wall using an automatic belay device and it was scary the first time but after it was a lot of fun!The climbing centerThe group as we wait for instructions (James, Kristen, Danielle, Me, Dani, Jenny, and Steve)Climbing along the wall trying not to use our hands (Danielle, Kristen, Me, and Dani)Steve showing us how to boulderOne of the climbing wallsMy group (Me, Danielle, and Adena)Me at lunchAdena and Dani at lunchOur instructors at lunch (Steve and James)The rest of the group at lunchAdena and Jenny climbing up the high wallMe climbing up the wall with the automatic belayerMe and Meghan climbing up the high wallKristen bouldering and Steve watching from below

After climbing indoors we drove to a trail and took a small hike and went and saw a castle. This part of the day was really fun. The group had a great time looking at the castle and exploring on our hike.The start of our hikeSome rock with moss on themSome of the group walking downAn area where the old miners used to send slate down to the groundA view of the lake on our way downMost of the group as we make our way down the trailThe river once we got to the end of the trailA river on the way to the castleBig rockFar off view of the castleView down from the top of the castleThe whole group at the top of the castleThe whole group in from of the castleEveryone again (Adena, Me, Kristen, Meghan, Jenna, Melissa, Jenny, Dani, Steven, Danielle, and Stephen)Another group picture

This was a great day at OP.

On Friday I went to class and then prepared for my mom and dad to come. I cleaned my room and caught up on homework.

Saturday morning I woke up and caught the train to Llandudno Junction and once I arrived I was greeted by my mom and dad. We then drove back to Bangor and spring break had officially started! I will update later on everything we will do while my mom and dad are here. This should be a really good two weeks!!!