Well, this weekend was an adventure. Sven was in town and Friday night Kori, Sven and I decided it would be fun to go climbing because we were going to have good weather. So Friday at like midnight we took all the seats out of Sven's van, piled it full of blankets and everything we thought we'd need and headed south. We drove till about Pocatello, parked and crashed in the back of the van. Saturday morning we went to the continental breakfast at Ameri tel inn and it was the best breakfast I have ever had at a hotel. They had omletts, waffles, cinnamon rolls, cereal, fruit, yogurt and tons of pastries and juice and hot chocolate. So after we were stuffed and took some for the road we headed down to Massacre rock. We followed these directions we got off the internet and they took us down these dirt roads that we got lost at least 3 times on and finally we saw another car, parked next to it and hiked down to the climbs. Massacre rock is huge! There were so many climbs. Most of them were really hard, but we got about 5 different climbs in that day. The rock was a lot different than Paramount and so were the routes, but it was fun to have something different and they were a lot more challenging. We had a few good falls too. Kori was lead climbing and was up as high as she needed to be to clip in, but was out to the right a good body length or two away from the bolt. Thats where she fell and dropped mostly straight down about 8 feet or so at first, hit the rock and then swung way over and smacked the rock again. I was belaying and it made me pretty nervous, but she was ok. We lowered her down and she cut herself up a little bit. We got pictures so I'll post them as soon as I get a chance.
So at about 3 we had to go because Sven had a date that night and we were about 1 mile from Massacre rock when we hit a rock in the road pretty hard. We stopped to check out the car and the oil was pouring out. So we turned off the car and I called my mom hoping we could use our AAA service and get towed to town. Apparently we don't have AAA anymore so my mom just called the police. So the cops were coming to get us and all we had to do was wait. We waited for 4 1/2 hours! I have no idea what we did for that long. We told eachother stories for a little while, Sven called and canceled his date, and I was on the phone with the dispatcher trying to give him directions until my phone went dead. Then it started to get really dark and I was a little concerned because no one really knew where we were. This is when we lit a lantern and stuck it on top of the car so someone could see us. We were so out in the middle of no where and the confusing part was that there were a few other groups climbing and they never passed us. They must have known a better way out. Well, we started to get hungry and we were eating dry oatmeal and peanut butter. Then we remembered Sven brought his alcohol stove and some clam chowder. So we lit the stove and put it outside the van door and it started catching all the little weeds on fire. We put them out and cooked the soup. Just as we were finishing up the officer showed up in a truck. Then as we were trying to put away the stove so we could go it rolled under neath the car and started catching things on fire again! I was a little nervous because we had tons of oil spilled everywhere and there was a lot of dry brush. Sven smothered it though and we got in the truck for a ride home. Kori and I sat in the back seat under a gun rack that had machine gun on it. It was cool. He took us to the sheriffs office in American Falls and Svens friend Steph picked us up from there and took us to her place in Pocatello. She is one of the nices hosts I have ever met. She bought us stuff from the grocery store and totally went out of her way to do anything we needed her to. That night we caught the last half of the Warren Miller film (snowboarding video) and crashed at Steph's place. Sunday morning we raided her roommates closets for some church clothes and went to her ward. She had sacrament first like you're supposed to. I miss having church like that. After church and hanging out for a while Steph took us to Blackfoot where we met Kori's Uncle who asked us to stay for dinner. We had really good lamb chops, potatoes and rolls. Then he took us back to the burg. Our roommates were just finishing up dinner so we ate a little...again and later that night I went over to my brothers house for a cool sunday night jam on the guitar with some drums and a high hat. Then I went home and watched part of broke down palace. It was a busy weekend and now I'm pretty busy catching up on homework. It'll be nice when the semester is over. I need to write a petition to stay here another semester to. I hope they let me!