St. Paul, MN!

Hello again from some random computer in a random library. BUT thank God they are here for me to use. I am kinda upset how dependent on Internet and a computer. I guess that's my generation though. Couldn't imagine doing this trip without a cell i guess you would get lost a lot more. So the last few days have been pretty much equivalent. Avg distances of 75 or 80 miles on absolutely gorgeous terrain and beautiful days. The routes have been great and the miles just keep flying by. Its hard to believe that we are nearly half way across now and just a few months ago i thought my 40 mile jaunt was difficult. Now i pray for a 40 mile day. But all is well in bike and build. We have stayed at some pretty extravagant churches with church members as nice as ever and giving us so much delicious food (like fresh fruit) and ice cream floats and muffins the size of my head and so much else. Tonight is extra ordinary where we get to sleep in a nice bed in host families houses, so i am looking forward to that. Sadly we left the awesome roads of Wisconsin and amazingly upgraded to bike paths in Minnesota all the way to Duluth! However the Wisconsin Dairy was absolutely delish and i stuffed myself with as much Ice cream and cheese as my body can handle. I will test out Minnesota's selection and let you know.

Today's ride was pretty good. Fabulous day with great weather and now that the biking part of bike and build is getting a little monotonous and our butts getting sorer by the day one of the leaders decided to have a picture scavenger hunt. This includes about 30 tasks and each task is assigned a point value based on the ridiculousness of it. My group of 4, Anson, Pen, Kevin and myself got nearly ever item on the list believe it our not. but apparently there is one group that will be challenging us for the victory. For your enjoyment i typed out the tasks and posted some of the pictures.

1) Dead Frog
2) Person in uniform
3)Motorcyclist on a bicycle
4) Ice Cream scooper (Funny story about that. my group was busy taking pictures with our found ice cream scoopers at a lovely place called Nesbitt's Nursery which had ice cream, apple cider donuts and a whole bunch of cool stuff, but anyway we saw another coming up and they noticed that we had one of the tasks on the list that they didn't have so it was a mad dash by both groups to try and grab all of the scoopers before the others could get to it. Quite a funny spectacle, but my group managed to get the scoopers but then they actually bought ice cream meaning we had to give back the scoopers :( )
5) B&Ber name on a headstone
6) Live Non domesticated mammal
7) picture of baby cow
8) Purple flower
9)Unicorn (we found a real one)
10) Bike and Builder over 10 feet above the ground
11) B&Ber mimicking a statue while standing next to it
12) Abe Lincoln look alike
13)person in a shawl
14)person wearing waders
15) mail carrier
16)yellow ball
17) B&Ber handing out a buissness card to complete stranger
18)misspelled sign
19)road sign pertaining to bike safety
20) girl under 7 years old
21) pop sign under 500
22) B&Ber smelling fake flowers
23)Person wearing foam hands
24) license plate from a state bordering the ocean
25)discarded glove on the side of the road
26)a mullet
27)person eating a carrot (this was the hard one)
28) an open umbrella
29)someone sitting on a park bench
30) Discarded beer can on the side of the road

ok well that's it! ill let you know the victor when we have the totalling and voting

Joke answer: A stick

Joke: Whats worse than a biker who thinks he is a pirate? (complements of Pen)