Last night I crossed another thing off my “Bucket List”…
I went rock climbing…well not true rocking climbing…just up some rock walls…
I went as part of a MOM’s Night Out for my Multiples Group…
Being that I am well as Cartman would say “pleasantly plump” I was a little worried…
You see three members went to class to learn to Belay…that is be your anchor when your ass is up on a wall…one of the women, K is like half my size and I very seriously asked her “Is it going to work because I just envision my fat ass making you fly across the room”
I was told – it will work – everything will be fine…
So I get to the place – where I go to put the harness they gave me on and realize I can’t get it past my “womanly” hips…so I have to slink back to the counter and ask the very nice woman “Excuse me, do you have a WIDE LOAD size harness” – and gee lucky me they did…
So my first time up I go up about ¾ up the wall and then I look back and down.
BIG FREAKIN MISTAKE…
Have a mini panic attack (umm did I mention I am scared of heights…oh and bridges…and spiders…) and tell them I am coming down…and magically I make it down and think about kissing the floor…
After awhile decide ok I’ll give it another try – get half way up before I decide to give up…
Third time…it’s always a charm right…
Well K tells me – I’ll Belay you (other members did it the previous times)…I look at her – taking in all her skinniness and say “are you sure”….once again she says “it will be fine”
So I get all hooked up and climb up the wall…made it almost to the top and decide to come back down…so I yell down…get the thumbs up ok for me to come on down…
So I start coming down and notice K is giving me a little more slack…so I lean back a little more to come down a little faster…when out of the corner of my eye I see….
K FLYING….
And then I drop about 3 feet and bang against the wall and the harness goes up my crotchatal area...as I hear one of the instructors running over while yelling “grab the wall”…hey man I am trying, I am trying….At this point I am thinking I am really, really glad I had a C-section or else I probably would have peed myself…
So there I am clinging to the wall with a crotch wedgie…K is standing there with the look of terror in her eyes, holding her right hand away from the belay and the instructor is grabbing the rope…
I am gently lowered back down to the earth.
I am trembling – K is trembling and her hand looks a bit swollen…and she keeps apologizing to me…
What happened?…turns out K had a little slack in her anchor rope…which allowed her to be flung forward when she had my full cow-riffic weight on the rope…she grabbed the belay which in turn pulled her hand up into it and pinched it but good…
So my prediction came true …sort of…
Would I do it again…I don’t know…but if I did…I would totally let K belay me again…I trust her :)
But for now...I can say I have rock climbed...with an added bonus...with TC being laid up for awhile because of shoulder surgey...that's the most action my crotch has gotten in weeks...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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OMG! What a fantastic idea!
We took N and about 5 of his friends rock climbing for his bday this year. It was a blast. The parents wanted to do it, too.
I am glad you had fun.
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