Spent the last day of uni packing up and eating all my leftover food, mum and dad came tp pick me up that evening and we got home just over an hour later. Picked Amy up from Preston station the next afternoon as she was comming to stay with me for a few days before she moved into her new house in town. Showed her around Southport for a bit and we bumped into Rach, Bex and Pauline outside Rickies ... conveniantly! Good to be back again and see people =] walked through town and down by the lake and over the bridge. Rach and Amy got along famously and had alot of Bio talk much to my amusment! Got ice cream and went through the hall of mirrors ahahahah. We all went to the cinema that night to see Public Enimies which me, Amy and Vicky thought was really good! Me, Amy, Vicky, Rach, Bex, Adam, Eddy and Mike and Andy went. Went to Liverpool with Claire the next day and Amy bought a dress ... and I was good and didnt buy anything! Saw Rach, Bex and Pam too =] and went for lunch at Bella Italia.that night Me, Amy, Vicky, Bex, Rach, Eddy, Adam and a few others went to Pizza Express (where I worked last summer) for 2 for 1 pizzas. Me and Amy had an ‘Indoor-Outdoor’ day on the Friday ... watched episodes of ‘On Thin Ice’ and ‘High Altitude’ and flicked through climbing books and magazines inbetween naps (Amy lol). Took Amy back to Lancaster on Saturday morning on our way up to the lakes for a church walk up Catbells. It was one of the hardest goodbyes ive had to do ... knowing ill not see her till next summer ... mabey not even till next septamber when were back at Lancaster for our 3rd year.
Was a good mosey up Catbells ... got the boat across the Derment Water and informed everyone that I was now the trained first aider (and was ‘more quallified’ than Ian who is a GP hahaha) had a great catch-up with Peter and chatted to Andy =]. Found a rope swing on the way back along the lake which was fun. All good walks end in going to the pub/cafe ... so thats when we did! Rach came over that night for a curry with the Cairns family and to ‘plan’ our adventure to Germany ... we seemed to leave it a bit late to plan things as we were going the next monring!! And the planning we got done was very limited! Oh well ... we were spontanious ... always good =]
Rach picked me up at 10ish the next morning and we were on the plan by 1ish. Got stuck in to Heinrich Harrier – The White Spider (awsome book about the assents of the Eiger ... and its disasters). Landed in Dussledorf a few hours later and were greeted by Rach’s uncle Adrian. A few train rides later and we arrive at Adrians, unpacked and went for a walk through the woods before going out for a pizza, collapsed into bed later and had a great catch up for a good few hours =]. The next day we went to the ‘Gasometer’ which is a solar system exhibition and has ... as Rach put it ... ‘the biggest moon on Earth!!!!’, had loads of fun and got all ‘sciencey’ together then went to the biggest shopping centre in Europe for lunch and an explore. Went into Dortmund the next day ... had a bit of train fun getting there in the process and had to work on our German! (too bad the ‘Romance section’ in the guide book we bought it for didnt come in handy here ... as that was the only section we’d lernt phrases from! Hahahaaa) spent most of our time posing next to / on rino’s with wings ... found a park and ate lunch and read under the trees ... before climbing them! We decided to go for a walk in the woods at the back after ... turned into a bit of an epic when the thunder started when it got dark and we started to hear strange squeeking nioses (like on midsummer murders!) decided to get out of the woods and got frightened by glow works and a car starting up down an dark lane which made me scream... which made Rach jump inot a ditch! Got in drehcned .... but happy =] On the wednesday wen went to the zoo with Adrian ... and it rained!!! Met up with Adrian’s friends later at the pub and had a great laugh ... and German Beer!! Went to look round some old towns on the last day and had a nice strole through the woods surrounding and planned more adventured for the summer =] packed up the next morning then left for the train and our flight, got home about 11pm and crashed ... good trip =]
Got up the next morning to help at Andy’s carwash to raise money for Denmark ... our carwashes are always good fun with more water thrown over people than cars ... the bacon butties and cake are alwys good too! Kathryn came round that evening to stay over. Church the next monring and then went for a bike ride around Churchtown and down the coast road with Kathryn and Vicky ... was a bit windy but good fun as always =]. Went to the gym with Emma the next monring as we hadnt seen eachother for aaaaages! And met up with Carrington for a drink as he didnt have time for an adventure in the lakes as he was leaving for the Dolomites the next day!
Went out for a curry the next night for my birthday (16th July) then Claire and Rach came round to mine to get ready for going out and some per-drinks ... me and Claire had some clothes swapping as usual ... bras ... dresses etc hahaha. Went to Malones first where was saw some of our ex-teachers from Greenbank having a leaving party!!! Mr, Lennon was funny ... had jagar bombs and a fish bowl then migrated to Staryskey where we met alod of random people and Garys, Hitch etc ... I went to the bar and ordered 6 drinks as no one else wanted to go up ... silly. I think me and Claire ended up tap dancing with Arron then we went to Apres as usual!! Met up with Mike, Luke and countless other people we knew from KGV etc ... wes a great night with some interestings goings on ... good birthday ... got in at 4ish and ate a huge piece of cake ... not such a good idea! Spent the next day sorting stuff out for Canada. Went round to Rach’s on the Saturday night with Zenal and got ready for Emma’s birthday do! Got to Chiquitoes for 9.30ish ... and got into town for about 11.30. had a great night ending up in apres again with the usual crowd ... the night ended with me and Mike arm wrestling for aaages and having a very long convo about all things silly like climbing, skiing, go-ape and the cornish economy... Mike and Pete got a pizza with us and at some point we lost Rach and me and Luke walked round the block looking for her while she was under the stairs the whole time. Mike and Pete walked us the the taxi and Mike payed for it too!!! Got in to Raches at 4.30 and chatted for half an hour before falling asleep. Reslised the next day that we had left Ian ... who was alseep on the table ... turned out he had woken up in the bushes down Rotten Row at 6:30am!!! Was the big lunch at church the next day and i ate soooooo much ... then bounced on the bouncy castle tooo much ... not such a good combo, especially after a long night out! Was funny to see peter on the bouncy castle too!!
In the last few days ive been sorting out Canada stuff ... Been to Eddy’s Baptism ... which was the funnyest one ive been too! He’s a natural at speeches! Went back to Bex’s and Adams after, chilled out in her new front room listening to Enrique Iglasias =] with hot chocolate and recording Adam and Eddy’s sketch for camp ... was a bit funny! Was Hannahs birthday on thursday. Spent the aftenoon chilling in her garden with everyone and fighting with Vicky on the bouncy castle, then me and Rach walked home (from Ainsdale!) went out with Rach, Claire, Eddy, Gary, Hitch, Samuel, Mike, Pete and loads of other people (saw Lucy!!!) that night. Got ready with rach who ended up with a sparkly face when not paying attention while i was talking rubbish to people on her msn while putting bronzer on. Noticed for the first time theres an owl in Apres! Matt stole my hairband at some point and lost it ... it fell on Petes head from the roof after Apres closed ... odd. Me and Mike arm wrestled ... again, stayed around for about 30mins chatting, then had a rave in the car on the way home =] Went for a run yesterday, down to the bridge and around the marine lake, back along the coast road ... quite an achievement after a night out and going to bed at 5am. Planning climbing trips today and having a chill out with vicky. Going to watch as many Friends episodes of friends as we can and order in pizza later!!!
Went to Parbold Quarry with vicky the next day just to do some top-roping due to my embarrissing lack of gear. Had a fun drive there and a fun tumble down the hillside trying to find the quarry ... which when we got there was sooooo dirty!!! I knew it wasnt the cleanest ... but this was pure hell ... and oh!!! soooo greasy!! I manages four climbs, which were tough ... we left the guide book in the car, so what did I expect!!! ... So dirty ... I actually feel abused!!
Allot of things have happened since ... first of all Ive done all my first year exams! And got my grades to get to Canada I might add!! Spend the days before my exams revising in the garden at home, having BBQ’s with Kathryn, Mike etc, and in the library with various people eating magic stars and buttons (mainly Lindsey, Jojo and Mark).
After the last exam me and Struggles finished at the same time ... I got outside and he picked me up and spun me round ... well ... getting used to it now lol. Me and Amy did our Karate grading on the Wednesday and I got my Yellow and Amy got her Green belt.
Had a few fun nights out with fellow climbers too. Went to the Carlton after the Pioneers bar crawl ... which consisted of everyone dressing up like ‘climbers of the past’ either tweed or 80’s lycra mainly. Had a go at some bouldering round Cartmel then headed to the Carlton ... drank allot of champagne and ended up stripping off with Ros and proceeding to encourage everyone else to follow suite (we had bikini tops on) was a great night with Amy, Ros, Claire, Mark, Struggles, Jonny, Ed, Bed and many other people we bumped into! Me, Struggles, Mark and Gary went bouldering the day after ... we were all pretty shattered and spent more time lying around on the mats than bouldering really. 
Got up at about 8 the next day, and walked up to the bottom of grey crag. We did a 5 multi-pitch, a 2 and a 3! Each taking over the lead for the next pitch ... my belay building and gear placements were rocky at first, but i soon got the hang of it (climbs .............................) we got down a good few hours later and had fun cooking tea on my little stove and eating proved difficult as Struggles didn’t have a fork. Washed up, planned a walk for the next day and got to bed early. Up at 8 again and headed for ......... the mist came in ... or rather we got into the mist and, very embarrassingly got a bit lost. Decided to head down Ennerdale, past blacksail youth hostle where ive stayed before, it’s the most remote in the country. Stopped off for lunch, an explore, and a mug of hot juice. Set off up to Haystacks and did the ridge along high crag, high style and along to Red pike, sharing the carrying of the rucksack. We practically ran off Red Pike, and stopped off at the tarn for a feet cooling session. The pub was closed when we got back much to our distress, to we got an ice cream and headed back to the tent to find we were the only people there! Had a sort of ‘bath’ in the huge sink at the farm and washed my hair before cooking tea and heading down to the lake again. Up at 8 again to pack up, and walked down the lake to the bus stop in intense uncomfortable heat. Sat around for the bus then began the journey home. 
Tuesday night was Furness Extrav!!! Mexican style!!! ARRRIIIBAAA!!! Borrowed Antony's sombrero and went round to meet Amy, Lindsey, Jojo and Josh for pre party Scrumpy as per usual. Was a great night with far too many tequila shots and nachos all over Amy shoes which i tried to clean up while she kept walking around. Partied the night away with Amy, Jojo, Lindsey, Gary, Struggles, Josh, Toby, Sam, Katie and soooo many other people I’m going to miss so much (already am!) the night ended with Struggles walking me home ... was rather funny. 
Wasdale was amazing! Packed up the car, drove through Lancaster, ended up stopping off to buy more Gin!!! Had fun on the windy (almost vertical) roads into Wasdale, and laughed at the satnav which had direction turrets! (Right, right, turn right, ri, ri, right, right, right!!!) Put up the tent and went to the Wasdale head for a pint of Wasd-ale!!! Ahahah, and a meal before having a laugh and drinking Gin in the tent, planning with to do the next day and making friends with the Irish man next door to us who lent Mark some loo roll! Went up Great Gable, Green Gable and Kirkfell the next day where somewhere Amy lost her sunglasses. Stopped off at a waterfall and pool on the way back and went for a swim to cool down before heading back to the pub for tea. The Wasdale Head has such a great atmosphere, we chatted to various people and marled at some of the exhibition photographs on the walls. Went up Yewbarrow the next day as we only had half a day as Mark needed to be back to go to Spain! Talked rubbish most of the day and had a quick boulder on a glacial erratic lol. Went for a quick dip in crummock water (the deepest lake in the Lakes!) to finish off with then had a rave on the way back in the car again, said our goodbyes at Lancaster, and parted ways. Spent the next day packing up and gave Amy my left over food. Mum and Dad picked my up that night ... was a sad day really.
