Quick Story Behind the Picture
Actually, I reconsidered. I think the picture is pretty self explanatory.
Mrs. Awesome
This last weekend Scott, Johnny, Rob and I headed down south to do some riding and hiking. On Sunday we joined up with Scott's sister Christy to hike Angel's landing. About 3 in the afternoon we were all sitting at the saddle of Angels (right before the landing) when Mrs. Awesome, a middle aged woman dressed in full Utah State warm ups and Oakley sunglasses, comes running literally running up to where we are sitting. First thing out of her mouth is the exclamation "This is just AWESOME!!!"
She immediately looks down at her watch to check her split-time. Then she turns around to the apparently empty trail behind her and yells "24 minutes! The guide said 3 hours. Pshhh!"
A few seconds later a gasping Mr. Awesome lumbers over the horizon and explains, in between breaths, "Well the guide probably didn't expect you to run the entire way, Hun"
Mrs. Awesome then turns to us and asks us "Is this the top?" We shake our heads and point her towards the network of chains that take you to the top of the landing. At this point she tries to wait for her husband to catch his breath but she just can't contain the bursting fireball of energy that's inside of her.
She starts heading for the top. This marvel of a woman is definitely too entertaining to get left behind by, so we follow. We make it up the first set of chains, and it is clear that Mrs. Awesome is completely unaware that Mr. Awesome has thrown in the towel. She keeps shouting to Dennis how awesome it all is, but Dennis is camped at the bottom having none of it. We decide to politely point out the fact that Dennis is at the bottom and not heading up.
She looks back and rolls her eyes, and says "I bet he's mad at me, but I don't care."
"I am always trying to get him to do adventurous stuff like me. I even made him run up the entire trail"
What do you even say to that?
A minute or two later we get to a section of the trail where Mrs. Awesome starts to struggle a bit, so we move on ahead. We make it to the top, chilled for a while with some cool chipmunks named Petie (Pee-tee), and headed back down. About half way down the landing we run back into Mrs. Awesome. And even though she has completely stalled, her motor is still going full tilt. She tells us that she got freaked out a couple times, but she is not giving up. It is her 4th try and she is determined to summit. Then almost as a passing thought, she says "Tell Dennis that I am trying again, and this time I am going to make it!"
When we got to the bottom we looked for Dennis, but Dennis is nowhere to be found. Did he head to the car? Was he taking a nap in the bushes? No one knows. And no one can know. But Mr. Awesome, wherever you went and whatever you did, I'm cool with it. Because when you're married to Mrs. Awesome, you deserve that break, no matter what you did with it.
