the day of my ultimate humiliation

the only thing i wanted to do the whole time we were at aspen grove was the high ropes course. i had looked forward to it for nearly a year. the day came that everyone decided to head down and do it. i was so excited. the first to go was alice. she went up the log pretty well and over the rock wall like it was nothing. i was nervous, but this was nothing i couldn't handle. next to go was sara. as she started up the log she kept saying "i can't do this, i seriously can't do this"...but she did it just fine. everyone proceeded to go and appeared to have no problems. alice, sara, cj, misty. then it's my turn. i shimmy up the log like i'm a monkey with 6 arms. no problem. i can do this blindfolded. and sara thought she couldn't do it. ha! i reach the top of the log. i peer over the ledge to the rock wall and think, "that looks impossible, but nobody else had any trouble so....sure i can do it." i get out there and start climbing up. i pause. where is my foot supposed to go next? i look down and ask. they tell me, "the red one, put your foot on the red one!" okay...the red one is next to my neck. are you serious? yes. the red one. okay...i can get my foot on the red one but i am then in the splits and i'm pretty sure i can't get my weight on that top foot to go up any higher. what should i do? by now my arms are shaking from holding on so tight. everyone else did it though, so....let's try this. i jump for it! and....i slam back into the wall as the belayer catches me. hmm...that was hard. let's try something else. i'll put my foot on this little hand hold and grab my rope and pull myself up with sheer brute force. whoops, belayer catches me again. and i get in trouble for grabbing the rope and not holding on to the rock wall. okay, one last try. i jump for it again! sadly, i fail. i have to be belayed back down to the bottom. in humiliation i take my gear off and sit and watch as dave s. goes up (he had to come back down because his feet were too big), then james makes it up and over in 30 seconds...then holly has no trouble whatsoever. it's more than i can bear. i decide to head up the hill so that i don't have to face the walk of shame with every other successful member of the family. after you get over the rock wall you walk around in the sky on a wire. it looked really fun. everyone came down saying it was so hard, they totally get why i couldn't get over, i have very short legs (this is true. when you're 5'1", nothing on you is long), but come on. it was hard, but they all did it just fine! it was truly the day of my ultimate humiliation. here are the pictures i took of everyone else's success. there are a million of alice because she was first and none of james because he was last. sorry dude.