If you like Pina Coladas and getting....

[markwebster]

All summer I've been scratching for partners, and last weekend was no exception. My wife has been down with various minor injuries since the spring, but last weekend she was back in shape and we went to Leavenworth together. After climbing with a variety of partners all summer it was strange climbing with my old, best partner after so long.

 

There are some distinct advantages to climbing with ones wife instead of just another buddy. It reminds me of an old song from the early eighties called the Pina Colada song. I've shortened it down a bit for brevity:

 

"I was tired of my lady

We'd been together too long

Like a worn-out recording

Of a favorite song

So while she lay there sleeping

I read the paper in bed

And in the personal columns

There was this letter I read

 

 

Yes I like Pina Coladas

And getting caught in the rain

I'm not much into health food

I am into champagne

I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon

And cut through all this red-tape

At a bar called O'Malley's

Where we'll plan our escape.

 

So I waited with high hopes

And she walked in the place

I knew her smile in an instant

I knew the curve of her face

It was my own lovely lady

And she said, "Oh it's you."

Then we laughed for a moment

And I said, "I never knew."

 

That you like Pina Coladas

Getting caught in the rain

And the feel of the ocean

And the taste of champagne

If you'd like making love at midnight

In the dunes of the Cape

You're the lady I've looked for

Come with me and escape

 

this is Sue and I in Yosemite in 1983:

 

[olyclimber]

congrats!

[Couloir]

Thank you. Now that song will be in my head until I go to be tonight.

[StreetBoss]

I see why you married her...yeowza

 

[Raindawg]

SCAN ON!

[111]

dude, when was hiking in speedos cool? BULGE!

Edited October 13, 2007 by 111

[mark1980]

I saw her the other day, she still looks good. As for Mark....thankfuly his shorts are longer these days.

[sk]

that is the sweetest thing i have ever read. you are BOTH SO LUCKY to love each other so much and to share passion for the same activity.

 

you give me hope.

[i_like_sun]

ME TOO.

[markwebster]

I figured I'd get in trouble for those shorts. I must have slumped on the rock and they rode up. There weren't that short really, just running shorts like Sue's. It is weird how shorts fashions go up and down over the decades.

 

I am very lucky to have met her. So many people get divorced these days. Even when I might have thought about bailing, I still needed a partner that weekend...and here we are, still together. She's also a great mom, pictures of Sue and our kids here:

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=722055

 

and here's a picture of me 3 years ago on r&d

[Bug]

Not that many couples can climb well together. Bonus points!

[thelawgoddess]

wow; that is sweet. she so lucky!!!