It can be kind of scary up there, for me anyway, knowing that one slip and you are tumbling down to the trees below.
When we got to the look-out area, Cari was standing near the edge. She was looking out. I was standing a few feet behind her getting my camera out and putting down the backpack. Just before I went to join her, I dropped my bottle of water near the backpack. The bottle bounced just a bit and started it's way down the slope. Cari heard me say goodbye to my water and she lunged for the bottle! Maybe she wouldn't call it a lunge, but from my point of view, it was definitely a lunge. She took a step toward the bottle at her side and bent down a bit. The bottle was sliding fast and was gone by the time she took that step. For a second, I thought my wife was going to catch that water for me, when she got to the bottom.
"You sit down right there!", I yelled at her. She started to try and calm me down a bit, but I continued, "It's just water! Stop moving, just SIT DOWN!"
She sat down on the edge of a mountain, looking out at the fall leaves.
4 comments:
Hmmm. Glassy Mountain. Didn't it sound a bit slick?
Do you have nightmares about Carri falling? I would after that.
Just to clarify... I did not almost fall off a mountain.. And for all the noise he was making you would have thought the camera fell, not a bottle of water.. I would have reached for the camera, but still would not have "gone fot it" off the side..
Cari
john - it hasn't rained for a while. But, yeah, it is slick up there, that's why I got a bit nervous.
michelle- I don't have nightmares, but I will tether her up there next time.
Cari - your first post to the blog! I'm shocked it took this long. The only reason I was making so much noise about the water was because I was still thirsty.
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