VIDEO: Morning terror, View and говорю по-русски :)

I had to drag my butt out of bed today.   

I was sooooooooooo tirrrrrrrrrrrrred.

My daughter came into my room at 6:30, asking if we were walking.

saw this on facebook the other day, and I'm pretty angry that someone snuck into my bedroom and took this picture of me.  cuz.... yep.  exactly like this.  Why does the child always look at you like you should be EXPECTING to be terrified as soon as you open your eyes.  And why is the gentlest whisper really the scariest way to be awakened???

After i can breathe again,  I ask her every time - WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING LIKE THAT!!!! 

 LOLOLOL 

She's like - "well!  I tried to wake you gently!"

gentle like a psychopath, maybe.

sigh.

  Anyway!!!!  after the music from The Exorcist stopped playing in my brain.... and i was able to clearly see the irritated look of my daughter's face....  (really!  really?!?!! SHE is irritated?!?!)

I was able to answer her.   Well, I think I clearly answered her in my mind,  "of course. It's morning. we walk."  

but.... i don't think anything came out of my mouth that was really understandable except "half hour longer"

*30 minutes later*  which felt like 1 second later, i was sitting on the side of my bed - mentally willing my body to respond.  

5 minutes later, i'm pretty sure I felt a toe wiggle.

ughhhhhhhhhhh..

i chose an easy route for our walk.  My daughter was happy.  My son - seemed- happy too!   Little did we know, he was plotting his revenge for this early morning walk with every step.

one mile in, he says - "hey!"  (by now - his voice is chipper and his skinny little body has energetic pep with each step)   "How about we walk up the mountain?!"

Now.....

he's been asking this for about a week now. He says... "if we have to walk - we might as well make it exciting." 

I don't really get that.  do you?   yeah. me neither.

the boy doesn't really like to walk - but he does it.  and he does a great job. and complains very little for a 15 year old.   and i've been deflecting the "surrrrrrrre, let's walk another 1000 feet in elevation! why not!" response for 7 days.   I knew I could no longer be successful at this.  

Ok!  Up the mountain.  

and..... i gotta say I'm glad we did!  it was a beautiful walk.  we ended up getting a special tour of a really cool site, and we actually felt pretty amazing after we did it!  I'm actually planning another walk up there very soon because I'm in better shape now than I have been in the last 10 years - and the walk really wasn't that intimidating! we kept a pretty good pace the whole way up - and then it was just smooth sailing all the way back down!

Enjoy the view - and you can even hear me practicing my Russian!  :)  I would say - "don't mind the mistakes"  but i don't think you'll notice them anyway!   well, i know of 4 Russian speakers that will.  LOL  but they won't tell!  ;)