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Betcha can't guess what we did this weekend...

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Happy December everyone!

Our Turkey Day plans sort of fizzled out this year, so there sadly was no feasting or family for us. Don't worry though, we made out pretty good regardless.



We kicked off the long weekend with a bit of rappelling and bouldering at Pioneer Park on Wednesday afternoon. Man did that work my baby arms! I had a slight meltdown before rappelling but managed to get over it.

For Thanksgiving the next morning, we woke up early and headed out to Chuckawalla. We mountain biked in to Turtle Wall where we spent the whole day climbing and swinging around. Our Thanksgiving dinner was a picnic lunch complete with turkey sandwiches. Close enough! We were there until dark and we had thoroughly exhausted ourselves. All we wanted was to go home, get in a hot shower and eat cake.

Of course we didn't have anything to make a cake with so we headed out to the Pre Black Friday madness. We stopped at KMart quickly and realized they didn't have everything we needed, so we tried WalMart. Wow, that was a huge mistake. I dropped Chad off at the door, he went in and then immediately turned around and came out. Ha. So back to KMart we went. Since the deals didn't start until 7 we got to be first in line, thank goodness it was 6:50.

We continued to search high and low for cool whip to make a delicious ganache to cover our cake in to no avail. We lucked out and ended up having some in the freezer, a Thanksgiving miracle!

Friday we took a break from climbing and headed out to do a little shopping.... for clothes to climb in of course :)  We wore them the rest of the weekend but will be sure to wrap them up in time for Christmas!

Saturday we went back out to Green Valley. Chad worked on his climbing project and I finished up mine. I tired a beast of a climb, for me, and made it to the top and the very end. I wanted to give up, and would have a couple weeks ago, but not this weekend! We both worked h-a-r-d. Sunday I was beat but we went out to Moe's Valley so Chad could boulder. I hadn't been back in the valley before and it was gorgeous. We both had a good time and by the end Rukia, Chad and I were dead tired.

So that's how we wrapped up our long weekend: exhausted, dirty, sunburned and just a little bruised and bloody. And it was absolutely fantastic.

"Relaxing"

After I got home from work Friday afternoon my plan was as follows: Eat something fast and easy then relax on the back patio and work on my tan :) It was going to be very unproductive, very lazy, and very awesome. Chad however, decided that he wanted to go mountain biking and that I was going to go too. Our bikes are finally up and running after the bent bike rim and multiple other problems. We hadn't really been out on our bikes since I last hurled myself over my handlebars and bruised my ribs.

We went over to the same trail that tried to kill me last time, Bear Claw Poppy. The downhills are a little crazy and out of my league in the beginning, but after I rode down/walked down them I was good to go. It was perfect weather and a nice long ride.

We got to the turn around point and Rukia decided that she was done. Seriously DONE. In the beginning she runs around all crazy and excited. She sits and cries if we stop. Well, this time she was laying down and crying because she didn't want to run anymore. Poor pup. It was really pathetic. At one point we let her lay down and rest and squirted a bunch of water all over her out of our camel-backs.

It was only when we got home when we realized that we had taken her out too far and she had cut up her front pad on her paw pretty good. She was too tired to move. She drank a bunch of water and laid down. She then proceeded to throw up and lay in her puke like a drunk college girl. Poor thing. Chad cleaned her up and then we doctored her up with a nice little bandage. She was too tired to even try to get it off. She's soooo sore now, hobbling around all over the place. Just a mess. I brought her food bowl over to her so she could eat where she was laying down. She was too tired to eat though and instead has just guarded it against the cats all day long. At one point Chad was just talking about her food and picked up Penny saying, "lets go eat Rukia's food". Rukia jumped up and "ran" over to her food and immediately started eating it. I don't know how she knew what was happening but she did, too funny.

Crazy Satan Eyes

Sunny and her were adorable this morning. Rukia was laying down licking her foot and Sunny decided to help out. He circled around her and cuddled in and was helping her clean off her paw. Awwww. My animals are super cute and awesome. At least I felt that way until Rukia decided she was too tired to wait to go outside and took a giant poop on the carpet. How's that for cute?

Tukupetsi Trail

We decided to go hiking last week and instead of looking up a trail to go on we just headed out in the general direction of some cool looking mountains. And it ended up being pretty awesome! It was a great trail, we biked and hiked and plan on going back to run as well. We brought Rukia with us and she had a ball. As we got closer to the cliffs we were curious as to what she would do. Well, she darted toward the edge and scared the crap out of us, back on the leash she went. Chad also got dangerously close to the edge trying to get some good pictures, which he got.