Birmingham Adventure - Rock Climbing

Friday night we went out to First Avenue Rocks here in Birmingham.  I got Jesse a Groupon certificate for this back in October for his birthday, and we never got around to going.  It was about to expire, so we used it this weekend. We needed a night out together after I had a very stressful week of midterms.

We had a good time challenging ourselves.  You can choose courses to do from "very" easy to much more difficult by choosing a certain color tape to follow.  I mostly just tried to make it up the wall any way I could.

Jesse immediately scaled up the beginner wall, and we had to move on to harder territory.

It was a really neat experience. There were numerous courses to try (many of which were way too difficult for us). Watching other people that obviously come there often was fun too. It's a great way to work your upper body, and since I don't do that often my arms felt like Jello before we left.

Afterwards, we drove around downtown and enjoyed the night time view of our city.

I found this Buzzfeed article recently of 50 things to do in Birmingham. We have done quite a few of them, but have plenty more to do!  This adventure was another check off the list!