Ribbon Creek Falls

So the Peruvian adventure is over and I am now fully absorbed back in to my busy routine here in calgary. It's sad because I had a once in a life time experience but the busier you get in to your regular routine the more you start forgetting about the trip. Mind you I do have the occasional flash back of the amazon. But it is definitely nice to be back in calgary doing other things that I love to do, such as training and hiking. I'm not sure if i mentioned this but Ben and I signed up the the Alberta Challenge Olympic triathlon and Ben has assumed the role of training coach. He is totally awesome, has made us a day by day schedule and posted it on the fridge. He super encouraging which is amazing except at the end of a 6 mile run when I feel like I can't take another step and there he is bouncing along beside me yelling encouragements. It is at that point that I tend to yell shut up! I just need to finish this darn thing in peace! But it feels great to be back on a training program again and I love training alongside ben! it makes it so much easier because if i dont feel like going he pushes me and if he doesn't feel like going I push him.
Other than training, life has not slowed down for a minute since I got back, between working full time, training, completing my papers and catching up with friends and family it has been slightly exhuasting... Mind you somehow ben and I found time to go for a 10 km over night hike last weekend. It was friday and ben was off early so we did our usual friday training (which is a mini-triathlon), then packed up and headed to the mountains. The intention was to climb Mt. Bogart a mountain that has a 12 km hike in before you even start climbing, but that plan failed when we got to the back country camp ground and realized that the path up to the mountain was closed because there was a moose carcass and bears up there. Oh well, we still had a great night. Had a "gourmet" meal with some wine and hung out by the fire and had a peaceful sleep with the sound of the rain on the tent. We woke up the next morning to blue skies, hiked out with the intentions of finding another mountain to climb, but our energy levels were low and Ben had a random allergic reaction and his eye was swelling so we decided to pack it in and head home. We planned on having a relaxing night, but of course with us that never happens because we get to bored. So what started as a walk to get some tea turned in to another 10 km walk up to 16th ave by sait (we live on 18th ave in the south) for all you can eat sushi. We had full intentions of taking the train home, only to realize that neither of us had any change and proceeded to walk all the way home. We walked nearly 30 kms that day, ten of which I had 30 pounds on my back and 50 pounds on ben's. But it was nice to have some time together, I vowed not to even think about my course work and succeeded, I was way to tired to even crack a book open. All in all it was a great weekend. This weekend unfortuneately won't be as exciting since my paper is due on tuesday and I didn't even think about it last week I have alot of work to get done. But I figure one weekend of fun, the next for work and so on until July 15th when all my papers are handed in and ALL my weekends can be for the champs.