A lot of days....

So sorry for the long delay it has almost been a week and i haven't let you all know how tired i am. Well now you know. Honestly it isn't that bad now and it looks like it will continually get better. Though i must say i went through a lot to post this blog. Tonight we are staying at RIT in NY, and I have been trying to get on a computer here since last night. We had a build day today and we did lots of landscaping to clear a lot for a new home. This area had 10 Habitat homes done recently. But anyways so i got back from that about an hour ago and have been looking for Internet ever since. I tried one place they told me to go to another place, who told me to go to another place, finally i found the right place and now i have to catch you up on almost a weeks worth of material in 15 min since we have dinner soon.

So my last post left you at silver bay which was great. the beds that we had were comfy and their were activities all over the place. I wish we had a few more days staying there so we could explore all the different options on the lake. But we left early that morning with as much breakfast as we could handle and as much bagels we could carry to the van for lunch. The day started off fine until a mile into it we hit the steepest longest hill i think i have ever been on. this road just kept climbing and curving so we couldn't get a full grasp on how tall it actually was. About an hour after starting the hill I finished, and Dan i would agree this day was the hardest yet. After this daunting hill was over we would run into a hill exactly like it... then another...then another... I would love to know the total elevation gain we had that day because it seemed all of the hills went up and only a few went down and if they did they didn't do it for long. So we made it to lunch. about mile 35 right on the Hudson. It was great. pb and banana with some honey. Then we started off again and what was ahead of us was more hills.....then it started raining again...and then we climbed another hill again...then it continued raining...then another hill...you get the idea. So we finally made it off of rt 28 (i think we were on it for 53 some miles or something like that). then we got lost, found all of our members then got lost again...then finally after a really long wet day we found our campground. We were all getting soaked and getting eaten alive by bugs which the remnants are still itching and we were not in a good mood though i think everyone here likes camping. Anyway thankfully we found 2 separate churches that would host all girls and all boys so we packed up all of our gear and headed out. Thankfully i got to sleep inside and out of the rain though all of my stuff was drenched so it didn't really mater anyway.

The next morning. June 29th we rode from Indian lake to Boonville. Another very long ride. the longest yet i think at 75 miles. Though this is the first day i tried a real pace line and i loved it. though we didn't stop much it was really nice to go fast for a long time. We averaged 16.4 mph (i know it doesn't seem that fast but it really is for a 4 hour and 30 min ride). The ride was hilly but not too bad. So now i like pace lines. Oh and it was the second day of our trip that it didn't rain on us while riding!

Monday was similar to Sunday in that we had no rain and it was a very aesthetic ride. Kevin and i decided to take it easy and just stay in the back. The only problem was that we didn't realize that we needed to make a turn so we went approximately 17 extra miles... it turned out to be a great ride and we really weren't to mad at the extra mileage. The sweeps were quite surprised when we told them that we were about an hour and half back when we had only been riding for an hour and a half. But the ride was great. we finished the day going 81.5 miles and had a lot of fun while doing it. the others however got to nap at the church something that i have yet to be able to do. Tammy the Church leader in Palermo (where we stayed) was very nice and had some great stories of the past B and B groups.

Tuesday's ride was the longest ride so far at about 87.8 miles. It was quite a long day and seemed much longer than the previous day. it took 6 hours and 15 min of riding time averaging 14mph. We stopped for lunch on a bay that connects to Ontario Lake. The day was perfect though and we took lots of breaks to stop in local stores and get some fresh cherries and strawberries. it was very very very good. we bought a qt of cherries on the side of the road for $1. talk about a dollar menu. Anyway we finally made it to RIT and are enjoying the dorms and real beds.

Well I hope all is well. That was the fastest i could type so hopefully not to many typos and hopefully it made sense.

Joke will have to wait