WOW~~~ 53 years old and climbing walls!!!

today, my youngest son and his wife and my DH and I all went to the climbing wall here in Wilmington. Guess which 2 climbed the thing? and rang the bell? Well it wasn't DH and it wasn't my daughter-in-law! One of them was ME!!! I went in there, didn't have to worry about a harness that would fit, strapped that thing on and with my heart in my throat I said Belay, got the affirmative, said CLIMBING and my belayer said 'Climb On', and up I started. It was a little scary half way up the 35 foot wall, but then I just kept going, telling myself this is part of the whole journey...It was wonderful...what a sense of accomplishment! Matthew of course, moved right on to the nearly horizontal walls, but I stayed on the wall next to the kiddie wall and went up 3 more times... a real thrill to say I can do this! Y'all run with me on this journey and find something you never thought you could do and DO IT! what fun and what a wonderful boost to my self esteem. Take care...thanks for letting me share with you!

Way to go girl ! I would be the one taking the pictures. I'm not much of a climber... Glad you had fun.. Sandy

Congratulations... Funny how we still envision not being able to fit into things. You probably not only fit into the harness, I bet they had to tighten it for you....Love to hear stories of people going out and doing the unusual and/or daring.... don't know how I would be with a wall climb. donna

Hi Pam, a great big WOW for you!! That is fantastic. Who would have thought a year ago even, right. I'm so proud of you Pam. You're certainly not as old as me (who is on this board -- no one!!!) but here's to the over 50 gang!! Way to go. I'm totally jealous because it seems this weekend I had a back step and didn't seem to do as well on my walking as I had. Maybe limping or dragging my foot a little more than usual. Greg said I had overdone it at therapy on Friday cause it's been bad since then - all I know is it was discouraging!! Keep it up girlfriend!! love donna