Took my family to a cabin in the mountains for the weekend. Took a rowboat out onto a pond that's in front of the place yesterday. That was fun.
Took my family for a hike on the Appalachian Trail today. That was a total disaster. You would think that after knowing my wife for 20+ years that I would be smart enough not to pick a 5.8 mile trail of substantial difficulty for a woman with MS. You would be wrong.
The hike ended up taking us about 7 hours. She fell once and almost ended up going head first and backwards down a drop off. Thankfully I managed to grab her and she only ended up with some scratches. She hit total exhaustion and tremendous pain about 2/3 of the way up the mountain. Which was great because the last 2/3 only included a 1000 foot elevation change up a bunch of rocks in a .4 mile section.
She broke down crying 5 different times from pain, exhaustion and frustration. We had 3 different strangers stop and ask if they could help in any way with extreme alarm on their faces. I managed to get her up, and then back down, the mountain by holding her arm and taking about 1/3 of her body weight on me and helping steady her. Along with very frequent stops to rest. Really fun day.
She's a total champ. So is my 8 year old daughter who took on some major obstacles on a tough hike by herself so that I could her my wife. For a kid with some processing issues and a lot of fears, I was super proud of her.
As for me, I'm an idiot who is lucky my wife loves me a whole lot!