View from work today:  the port that accommodates the vacuum pump and instrumentation for the Liquid Level And Mass-gauging Apparatus (LLAMA).  I'm not going to lie, even if I thought the technical aspects of my job were boring, it would still be really fun just to look at all the hardware!

Note:  I added Labels to this post and blogger republished it as a new post; not sure what's up with that.

Sunday adventures!  Michael is in red.  I'm in white.

We're engaged!

We spent a rejuvenating, reinvigorating, and relaxing (if those three things are possible all at once!)  weekend in North Carolina with friends on the Green Narrows.  This was my first time on the Narrows and Michael's third.  It was just the life-affirming, confidence-inspring experience that we needed - and so much fun!  The photos above show my run in three parts at Zwick's Backender, one of the more challenging rapids on the river.   

A few photos today from our trip to Little River Canyon (specifically, Upper Bear and Teddy Bear Creek).

We went kayaking last weekend to instruct on a Huntsville Canoe Club sponsored "progression series" trip on the Locust Fork, and it was so cold!  There were a number of relative newbies on the trip, and so we had people flipping and swimming out of their boats like you'd expect on a beginner trip (plus one guy who hit his head on a rock and ended up with 21 stitches - yikes!).  The whole experience made me reminisce back to the last time I went boating when it was warm, which was on the Upper Gauley at this year's Gauley Fest!  The photo above is of me somewhere in the middle.  It was such a great trip; I can't wait until next year!