Angelica Rock Climbing

Well, my extra helmet and kid's harness finally came in so I promised Angelica I would take her climbing. The hardest thing to teach her was to trust the belay set-up to catch her if she fell and to let go of the rocks so I could ease her down. After the first go, she took to it like a rock star! She got comfortable with going up about 30 feet...better than me the first time!

I never get tired of this spot. We tried for a shot further back, but the waves started crashing in and got a bit scary.

Rose's mom loves hiking and being outdoors. I guessed it skipped the next generation?

While Japan has some beautiful country, we don't see alot of wildlife. You know its out there as there are tons of predatory birds flying above, but you never see any rodents. Along the hiking trails, you'll see various scat, but almost never any animals. Last week, Mike and I saw a serow scurry up a rock across the ravine we were standing on. A serow is an animal kind of in between an antelope and a mountain goat. Today, we were lucky enough to see three of them running around together. I was quite surprised how close they let us get.