Is that a Maki roll or are you just happy to Sashimi?!?!

SUSHI CAFE
I'm hoping that while I am back home we can get yet another sushi fix! These photos are from last years visit when we stopped off for some lunch at what used to be my favorite place to eat. The last time Cody and I did sushi we sort of went overboard celebrating his new job, but honestly how can you not when it comes to that stuff. It's awesome! It nearly turned my whole world upside down when I tried it with raw fish for the first time as I was a vegetarian when I tried my first (veggie) roll. Ever since then I've been completely hooked and I get a hankering every now and then which consumes me until the desire is satisfied. Yummy goodness that sushi is..............


*So, the time is getting closer and for some reason I am finding myself a little nervous even. This is pretty weird since I'm just going back home to see family and friends. I've changed a lot in the past year and I suppose it's hard to relive what I have left behind at times. I wouldn't say that I moved to run away from anything, it was just a matter of opportunity if you ask me, and suffice it to say it all worked out better than I initially imagined. It hasn't been all peaches and cream, believe me I've dealt with my fair share of adversities since being here, and yet the world still revolves. In a sense I'm stronger and am better prepared to face these challenges now because of what I have been through. What was important to me then makes no difference to me now..............I am a lot more fulfilled being here amongst what I have come to love, the mountains, traveling, nature, photography, and most importantly MYSELF - I have come a very long way!

Climbed but not Conquered

Friday night we went to Makoto's for some yummi sushi!

Saturday we went climbing at Grandmother. In this second picture you see Grandfather Mountain in the distance. It was a beautiful day.

Later in the evening we went out to a place called The Barn, it is a boulder field that is located on a friends land. Below are pictures of a problem called Woodruff's Crack. I have sent this problem before but unfortunately I was no where near fit to even do the first move this go round. It was very humbling to go back to these places that I haven't been to in such a long time. Just this time last year I was climbing the same problems that I couldn't do this weekend. And boy am I sore today! I don't ever remember getting this sore when I first started climbing. But I suppose that we tend to forget those sorts of details when enough time passes. Sitting on the sidelines I tried to remember the moves to the problems that I knew so well before I stopped climbing. I sincerely understand the whole "if you don't use it, you lose it" saying now. If it weren't for Deanna coming into town I probably wouldn't have went out climbing in the first place. I'm glad that her visit inspired me to give it another try. Somehow and sooner or later the spark will find it's way back to me..................