Well either way I'll tell you what's been happening lately :)
First of all me, Robert and my dad had decided to go climbing on sunday, so Robert and I were on our way to meet up with my dad when Robert got a text from his friend at school. Apparently he was invited to go to the Nobel Night Cap (The after party to the Nobel prize dinner and ceremony) and was very excited. I however have never really been very interested in fancy dinners and parties so when it turned to be on a school night (On monday night, meaning I would with travels and all miss both my obligatory seminar on monday, and my lesson on tuesday + miss my last chance to interview a classmate - a very important homework for the course) I declined. After telling my family and friends a few thought I was pretty crazy to turn down the nobel price party, even if it was only the nightcap. Maybe I was, after listening to the experience robert had, it seemed pretty fun. Yet, for me it would never be an experience of a lifetime as it seems to be for robert. :)
Either way, it seems he had fun but he was a little off in his own world the entire sunday as he tried to plan who else to bring as I wasn't coming, and where to rent a tuxedo, rearranging his schedule and so on. The only time he relaxed and thought of something else was when we went climbing with my dad.
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| Robert climbing one of the easier bouldering walls (you're supposed to only follow one color, in this case - yellow) as he showed us how to do it. |
Robert have been climbing for a while now and have received some kind of certificate so he could teach us a little. We tried a climbing style called "bouldering" which is when you climb without the safety lines. Of course, you don't climb on very high walls as you don't have a safety line if you should fall - the walls were never higher than about three-four meters. It sounds like it would be easy, but it wasn't. The walls weren't always flat and finding a place to put your hands and feet weren't always easy. And we didn't even try out the really hard ones!
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| The hardest walls. They were of course climbed only by professionals with safety lines, and got to see some climb it - it was truly awesome! |
Unfortunately it wasn't all fun and games - we also had an accident. My dad got a bit stuck with one foot as he jumped off one of the walls, and so he landed poorly on his other foot - causing him to sprain it. At the time, we didn't get any ice (we were actually offered it but my dad said he didn't need it. He's pretty stubborn) as it seemed like my dad was fine, he could move the foot and walk on it. He even kept climbing. It seemed like it was fine - but yesterday I got a call from mom saying they had been to the emergency room as his foot had swelled up and turned blue. And yes, it was sprained. So now, he will have to rest for two weeks - something which is hell for my very athletic father (he works out every day - and often more than once a day). But thankfully it was not broken!
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| Our little cozy dining table while we were putting everything on the table. |
After our climbing we went home to eat a nice Sunday dinner with my family and it was really good! I believe it was pork fillet and jasmine rice with a delicious cranberry infused cream sauce. Unfortunately it was way to good for me to wait to take a picture before it was all gone haha!
Ah, what can I say? I guess it happens ;)
//Wayu
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