How did you get into blacksmithing?

It was 2009.  
I needed a hobby.  
I wrote down all the things I wanted to learn to do.  
And then I alphabetized the list.  Because I'm that sort of person. 
Blacksmithing topped the list.  I wasn't even sure that people still did blacksmithing.  I had never seen anyone blacksmithing.  
A quick google search for "Blacksmithing classes" returned John C Campbell Folk School as the first hit.  They have week-long and weekend classes.  It was an 11-hour drive.  I thought, "who takes a week's vacation to go learn blacksmithing?!" And I shut down my computer and headed out to lunch.  
And then I thought, "I do." 
I registered for my first class, told my boss that I was taking a week off to go learn blacksmithing, and have been smithing ever since.  
I haven't made it much past the "B's" in my wish list, but I've been enjoying the adventure! 

Caitlin as a newbie blacksmith at the John C Campbell Folk School.