AMY IS EXCITED SQUEEEEEE
Posted: Jan 30, 2011 8:22 pm
After SEVEN MONTHS of trying to find a grotto near-ish me that would, you know, accept a new member and not give them a hard time, be jerks to them, block access to cavetrips so they can't go...should I go on? anyway thanks to the awesome wyndottecaver's suggestion I contacted the St Joseph Valley Grotto based in Elkhart, IN and I just have to say... O. M. G.
Same day I get a lovely reply from Mark basically telling me the next planned things they have and who to contact to get in on some cool cave trip limited to 10 people being planned for September and gets me onto their yahoo group where the trip planning and stuff happens. Like, no questions, no hassle, no hoops to jump through, no jerkyness to deal with at all! I didn't realize people outside of TAG and the UK acted like this (aka acted like nice human beans? lol)! AMAZING!
So I'm already on the list for the Sept trip. Just like that. I posted a hello and bit of an intro to the group to say who I am/how I got started/what caving I've done so far and already THREE replies of welcome/hey cool hope we can cave together soon/etc including one from a *gasp* female! (I love you guys and I"m so used to guys since most of my hobbies for the last 10-ish years have been dude-heavy so I'm quite used to being "one of the guys" but...I miss having other females around!)
I am so excited and happy right now! They don't have any cave trips until March but there is a high ropes course/climbing wall/vert practise thing happening next month I hope I can attend. WOOOOT
Same day I get a lovely reply from Mark basically telling me the next planned things they have and who to contact to get in on some cool cave trip limited to 10 people being planned for September and gets me onto their yahoo group where the trip planning and stuff happens. Like, no questions, no hassle, no hoops to jump through, no jerkyness to deal with at all! I didn't realize people outside of TAG and the UK acted like this (aka acted like nice human beans? lol)! AMAZING!
So I'm already on the list for the Sept trip. Just like that. I posted a hello and bit of an intro to the group to say who I am/how I got started/what caving I've done so far and already THREE replies of welcome/hey cool hope we can cave together soon/etc including one from a *gasp* female! (I love you guys and I"m so used to guys since most of my hobbies for the last 10-ish years have been dude-heavy so I'm quite used to being "one of the guys" but...I miss having other females around!)
I am so excited and happy right now! They don't have any cave trips until March but there is a high ropes course/climbing wall/vert practise thing happening next month I hope I can attend. WOOOOT