You know what? I don't like mustaches. (Or, as some would say, moustaches. But I wouldn't.)
There are very few people and/or ethnicities that can successfully pull a mustache off. White people, for example, are not one. It makes people look really sketchy, like a child molester or some white-trash folk. But sometimes you can tell that people have grown a mustache just in order to look older, when really it just makes them look silly, as if they have grown a mustache just in order to look older, and I want to tell them to shave it off.

Yesterday I went on a hike in the Shenandoahs. It was pretty awesome -- it was too bad the leaves hadn't changed color that much yet but it was still sooo cool. I went freshman year and I have wanted to go back ever since, and even freshman year I only saw a little bit.

This year we went mainly on the White Oak trail...I think perhaps (looking at the map) that we went down on the Crescent Rock trail. It took us about 2 hours to get down the mountain to where we stopped for about a 20 minute lunch, and then we climbed 5 hours up the mountain. Some places it was so steep that you had to use your hands and practically mountain-climb. It was really fun but sooooo tiring (yeah, 7 hours of climbing a mountain can be tiring). We stopped once in a while to take photos or whatnot because the scenery was gorgeous -- valleys, waterfalls, cliffs, gorges, etc. I was looking on the NPS website for pictures but I couldn't find any good ones.

Anyways I thought we were going to get back to campus around 2, maybe 3 pm, because I didn't know that the hike was going to be that long. Instead, we got back to campus at 9:30 pm (keep in mind that I got up at 5:45 am), just enough time for me to jump in the shower and get to work by 10 pm.

Today I woke up soooo sore. BUT! I got up and ran my 2 scheduled miles anyways. Which didn't really make me feel better, and I had to do it very slowly, but I did it! Plus, my back has been so hurty the past few months that it's been hard to sleep, and I thought that this hike could only possibly make it worse, but it actually helped it! Amazing. I guess I need to go hiking more. Next month i am going kayaking though.

I also found out that their camping trips, which are generally around $45 a weekend (which I thought was a rather prohibitive price, given that I have none of the necessary equipment and would have to rent it all as well) actually INCLUDE the rental of the equipment, for the most part! So I will have to check that out for next spring.

Off to watch a video about Sierra Leone's war.