Every Day in May

                     This is my first official blog for every day in May, I am so excited and I could not wait for May to start.  Monday I went on my first ever hike and lets just say it was not what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be all paved paths with some hills.  We all met up at Ellison Park and began our hike; Brian being as adventurous as he is took us off-roading. I had NO intentions of getting dirty at all! My biggest concern of the whole day prior to heading to the hike was what I should wear. Then it led to how I am going to drive home without getting mud all over my seat? Let me explain&. During the hike everything was going well we were all chatting with each other then Brian stops and I gulp because I know something is coming up. All of the sudden I see the rest of the group climbing up this HUGE hill that looked like a mountain. He said You can either A: Climb the hill with the rest of us OR B: You can just meet us on the other side of the trail. I said to my self Im doing the hill! so up I went. Halfway up the hill the conditions of the soil& well I would not even call it soil it was MUD. The wet leaves got worse, there was no traction anywhere nor were there any trees to hold on to!! Lets just say I fell around 7 times. Every time I fell I got back up (after screaming like a girl) until I got to the point where I felt like I could not go anymore. I felt like I hit a road block and I couldnt move. I wanted to try and try again but I kept falling and falling. I ended up climbing back down and took the trail. I wanted to cry so badly but I couldnt, my body would not let me. It was telling me do not cry because if you do, you will let a hill defeat you. I was so disappointed in myself for the rest of the hike. I kind of kept to myself. With any hike or any walk you can always see the hill in the distance and youre like oh man this is no problem, but once youre walking up the hill you realize that wow this feels more like a mountain, but after you get over that hill and conquer the next three or four of them you realize: This is really easy, look at all of what I have accomplished There is nothing left to do, but just smile and be proud of what you were able to do. Thats how it is in life, we all have to jump over these hurdles or climb over these mountains. Are they easy? No, but we can all get through it.

          The hill did NOT defeat me! I will be back at the end of May for round two

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