Leching Along...

"I know you're tired, but come. This is the way. " Rumi



How much do we love Rumi? He not only knew everything a person can know about love, but it seems he also went hiking with his wife in the alps.
Yesterday was very hot, and weirdly humid for Lech. Somehow a hike that we consider easy, i.e. one hour up something steep-but still not much more than an hour up-somehow that turned hellish. I am not sure if it was the weather or the run I had done the day before, but I was not happy.
I grumpily told Thomas that in all our years together we had never, not once stayed in bed all day watching movies. This I find very funny now-that this statistic popped into my head and ate at my soul (not once!). But at the time I was very serious-I mean what is this? a marriage or a training camp?
He was very nice, and pretended to also be tired, but I am not buying it. Here is a picture he took of me at the top-when he asked me to look cheerful. ha!

I am worried about boring everyone with Lech stories, because they are so similar every year. We were out the other night with the Wehlens (they popped in for two nights which was nice) and the Schneiders and a Greek friend (and yes it was teensy awkward the whole German with Greek thing..but only at first) who is an expert-Harvard educated- Landscaper. I am still not sure what he is working on here, but something about joining gardens from one hotel to the other...
Anyway I sat next to G, and after a jolly dinner he decided that we four needed absolutely, positively to fly for one day to Monaco to visit a friend who is turning 50 because said friend didn't want to do anything special for his birthday, and this could not stand. Specialness had to be forced upon him. I had eaten a lot of hirsh sausages (god help me I hope it is not deer, but let's just call it elk..) and this seemed so obviously the right thing to do: we must get up at 4 in the morning and fly to see a person who specifically said he didn't really need to see us. Yes!!!
Luckily we sobered up the next day and realized that perhaps a person could survive his birthday without kissing the Schneiders or the Wehlens. Although why anyone would want that is beyond me...

In our group drop box I saw a website featuring nerdy pick up lines; found most likely by a fourteen year old on his way to Exeter. Preparation in love, as in life, is always key.

"You must be the square root of minus one, because you can't be real.." or, if that doesn't work:
Are you the square root of two? because you make me feel irrational."

Ok it's not Rumi, but still it might work at PEA.

Us in happier times..behind us the Omeshorn. We have hiked to the top of that too.