Wednesday: a good day

Today was a good day.

We're getting rid of the basement futon.  It's old, shaky, and really we just use it as a shelf lately.  However, no one wants it...I can't blame them.  I put the futon mattress by the trash can today and the trash people didn't take it, so I was disappointed about that.  However, there is a large item drop-off in a month and it should fit in the car, so I'll bring it then.  In the meantime, it'll live on the front porch.  This was the annoying part of my day, but there are still several different options for getting rid of it.

We also took apart the frame today.  Tomorrow I'll bring the metal parts for recycling.

This afternoon Joshua went with a friend to Urban Air and Isaac and I went to a climbing gym in Kalamazoo.  Joshua played hard for 3.5 hours and was dead on his feet coming home.  Isaac and I stayed significantly longer than I was expecting.  It helped that the other mom brought Joshua home and a friend brought Ben home so we didn't have to get home by a certain time.  It was a really nice gym - there were several auto-belays, tons of ropes, and two nice (albeit small) bouldering walls.  They were fun shapes and you got to climb over the top which is always fun.  The worst part was that people aren't allowed to belay until they're 14, which meant Isaac couldn't belay me.  (Maybe next year - and maybe we'll come back when we have a bit more time.)

On top of one of the walls.

Climbing up a large...doorway type thing.

They had some actually holds made out of rocks.  They were fun to climb, but colder than the rest of the holds.

They also had some zig-zag walls, which created some interesting climbing spaces.

We were getting a little bit close to done when some people walked into the gym.  (The gym had people most of the time, but it wasn't too busy.  Just enough to be nice.)  We knew the people!  Leah is the manager at Scrapyard and she came with her husband.  They were going to a concert later that night, but decided to hit up a new gym first.  It was very fun to see them.

Ben and Joshua were kind about having a super late dinner and the fact that we ended up picking up food*.  We got home at 6:30pm, and if I needed to throw dinner together too it was going to be a really late dinner.

*To be fair, people usually like take-out.  It's not something we get complaints about, although we usually don't do it during the week.