Journey to Our Daughter Anna: August 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

Our blog has moved 请看新博客

由于这个博客信息量太大了，编辑起来常常很慢。再加上这个博客原本是为安娜领养创建的，她现在己经完全融入我们的生活，这个博客的名称已不再适用。为此我新建立了一个博客，记录我们家的大事小情。下面为新博客的网址，请点击下面的链接。
This blog's size has become too large that I often have problems editing. In addition, this blog was created for Anna to capture her adoption journey. Now that she is completed adjusted to us and the content of this blog no longer matches its title. For these reasons, I have established a new blog. Please click to the following link:

我们家的新博客 Our New Blog

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Climing Half Dome - Day 6

It was one of the most amazing days in our lives that our whole family made it all the way up to half dome. We woke up at 4:30 in the morning and arrived at the John Muir Trail head at about 5:30. It was still dark and cold while we started. The initial two and half miles were very steep and we passed two beautiful waterfalls, Vernal Fall and Nevada Fall. The last part was also very steep. We reached the bottom of half dome at 12 o'clock. The climb to the cable base which leads to the top of half dome was very strenuous. It was still a 2 hour climb back and forth when we reached the bottom of half dome. David, Leah and I started first and daddy had to stay with Anna. I chickened out when half way on the cable. I was simply scared and tired. David and Leah made it all the way to the top and I was so proud of them. When we came down, daddy started climbing up and it took him only one and a half hours to finish. We thought climbing down should be easy, however, due to the big and steep steps , it was not easy at all. We finally reached the trail head at about 7 o'clock at night. We were all very exhausted, but felt so accomplished. The whole hiking trip was about 17 miles and it took us 13 hours.

We were all extremely proud of Anna. She did the whole hiking on her own. We were prepared to carry her, but she didn't end up needing it. She is just an amazing girl!