Sleep is coming. Right after I write this entry. See, I didn't sleep last night because I was leaving to go on a hiking trip this morning at 4:30 am. I didn't feel like waking up that early (partially because I knew I never would) so I just stayed up the whole night. We were leaving to go to the Shanandoah National Park, I think, but more specifically to a place called Humpback Rock. It's this big rock overlooking this huge valley. We got there early about 5:15 am or so, after the lead car in out varitable motorcade took a mindboggling 6 wrong turns in the span of like 10 minutes which put us in serious jeopardy of getting to the top before sunrise, which was the goal. I jokingly called her "the mole" for the rest of the day, it was pretty funny. Anyway, we got there and started climbing this mountain. Everyone else took the marked trail, but me and a few other people thought we'd take a shortcut. So treking through the woods, we saw this huge rock above us and figured it was Humpback Rock. So we climbed up to it just as the sun was coming over the trees, it was so beautiful. So we're up there on top of the rock wondering where everyone else is. Then we see this other rock all the way across the valley and there's a group of people standing on it. Turns out *that* was Humpback Rock. We had gone to the wrong one. Haha. It was still cool though, we nicknamed it the "Lion King Rock" because it looked exactly like that rock at the beginning of the Lion King where Simba is being held up by the baboon. So we finally hike over to the other rock, the real Humpback Rock, and it was absolutely gorgeous. Trees and mountains as far as you could see all around you. The sun had just come up and the blue ridge mountains were in the distance with this soft pinkish orange glow from the sun. It had to have been one of the most awesome and beautiful things I've ever seen. Follow this link to see some of the pictures I took while I was there. Let me tell you though those pictures do even come close to capturing what it was like. Amazing scene.

So we climbed back down, it seemed so much easier to climb down than to climb up. Then stopped at Aunt Sarah's for breakfast. Banana Nut pancakes. Mmm. My favorite. When I finally got back to my room is was like 11:00 am and I decided to take a nap. Less than 2 hours in I get waken up for something, and then had to study for the physics final. So sleep tonight is looking real good. `-)

Later.

lol
you're always naming some sort of food you like. :P
» EngelGenannt on 2004-04-30 08:09:01

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