the hike was freaking awesome! first one up to the top (yay!) but that was partially because i ran part of the way up since i saw a spider and then bolted....5 miles up and 5 miles down...i guess it sort of helped that i thought it was 3 miles up and 3 miles down, so it didn't seem that far to me. and i'm actually not that sore today! awesome. although we stayed up til 3:40 am having this intense discussion with jay about soccer and watched like a billion videos of cristiano ronaldo while simon drooled over him some more...haha and poor spike wanted to go to sleep too, but i think simon kept talking to him...erica finally was able to kick them all out of my room so that i could actually get 2.5 hours of sleep to wake up for desk this morning..whee! i'm totally gonna pass out at lab meeting today, and i know that i'm gonna be dreadfully sick later in the day, but oh man, so worth it