Edwin's Diary

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Dear diary,

had a school excursion to the indoor climbing place. They have just opened a new area for kids. The picture at left depicts me... climbing the bean stalk, I guess. No giant. No gold. But fun. Good for up to about 11.08-year-olds I guess.

They sure have a lot of different themes on the climbing walls. I climbed the Empire State Building, see below. Should have brought Oliver, there was a neat dinosaur skeleton wall just round the corner.

There was even one where you had to use one hand to lift two golf balls up a channel as you climbed, meaning that you had to climb with one hand and two feet only. When you got to the top, you could push the balls into a long and winding groove leading back to ground, and you are supposed to jump off and let the safety cord slow you instead of rapelling down, so that you beat the balls back to ground level.