Bruised not broken

I am totally exhausted and pretty banged up.  There is an impressive bruise under my left arm and a nice matched set forming up on the tops of my thighs, and I wouldn't change a thing.  Today, Cas and I went on another pretty amazing date.  I had some tickets for the Trinity Forest Adventure Park.  It is way south of Dallas in the trees near the river, and they have zip line courses with wobbly obstacles required to get to the zippy parts.  There are rope bridges, swinging tire pathways and all sorts of odd challenges you must accomplish before you are rewarded with a zippy fun time. 

Naturally, there is a series of safety accessories.  We both had on an elaborate harness, some fingerless pleather gloves and a goofy blue helmet.  As we are wont to do, we went on a Monday.  It was pretty underpopulated. 

We had a great time.  We zipped and zoomed through the trees and had crazy fun, but there was a moment when I had to climb a wobbly ladder of wooden rungs hanging too far apart from cables.  It was the hardest thing I have had to do in quite some time, and I now know that I truly have the upper body strength of a 39 year old woman who does not work out with any frequency.  I clung to parts of that ladder for dear life.  I was completely winded when I got to the top, and I was pretty sure I was about to be sick.  All things considered, it was still pretty great. 

We have trivia tomorrow.  We have a pretty good team shaping up for that.  Cas and I both went home after the zippy time and showered.  We were totally filthy.  Cas came back later on with popcorn and fruit, and we watched a movie with a bottle of wine.  He is pretty great, and he's a heck of a zip-liner.