Back To The New!!

We took Cyrus on his first "real" camping trip this past weekend. We met Laurie at the New River Gorge in WV to do some rock climbing, mtn. biking and hiking. I was so excited. I have spend many a day at the New climbing throughout my career as a sponsored rock climber and haven't been there for about 10 years. So, you can imagine my disappointment when it started raining the moment we arrived at the New and never stopped.

We camped on my friend, Lydia McDonald's, beautiful property. She just purchased 33 acres in the secluded woods of Fayetteville, WV. She's got a great house, a pasture, and a barn...thank God for the barn. We found refuge there for a good part of the weekend.

Our camping adventure on Friday night was crazy. It was the biggest lightening/thunderstorm I have experienced in years...and we were in a tent. Cy did great until about 3am and then he woke up and said he wanted to sleep in his own bed. I opened my sleeping bag for him and he rolled in and snuggled up to me and fell right back to sleep. He is such a trooper!!

Saturday was wet and rainy so we grabbed breakfast at the Cathedral Cafe, hiked up to the Hole where I used to do a lot of climbing, and then celebrated Cinco de Mayo at Diogi's with Lydia.

I still had an awesome weekend up there and am looking forward to many more climbing weekends to come up that way this summer!!!