Karen’s Mom and the Higgins came down from Chico to celebrate Easter with us. We enjoyed an Easter service in the tent at Lakeside followed by a nice Easter brunch of eggs benedict and potatoes finished off with Chocolate Mousse….nice.

Check out the pics of the little guy hunting eggs in the backyard.

Karen and I went rock climbing today in the Auburn State Recreation Area. We had an awesome time…the weather couldn’t have been better. I learned how to lead climb and belay for a lead climber. My first route that I lead was a 5.11a…probably more than I should have started with, but it worked out ok. I took a couple falls as I was trying to get over the roof of the crux, and one right at the clip over the roof which led me to about a 15 foot fall. It was good for me to see that the falls really aren’t that bad…but the definetly got my heart going.

We also had an interesting experience when a chunk of limestone broke loose as Karen was climbing crashing down a few feet away from me. She was tough and didn’t let it phase her…until she saw the big bug that lived under that rock!

We also found a geocache along the trail, GCM33B. All in all, an awesome day.

There was a break in the rain today, so I decided to try to hunt down some Geocaches that I’d been meaning to get for a while. I found GCHNFN, which had a great view from the top of Sacramento county. I also got GCJ43G, GCH3G5 and benchmark JS0727 (pictured on the left).