Bike Tour: Day 2

Day 2 of the Bike Tour!

We had a great night sleep. Earlier I had posted that I was happy to go from a tent and no Air conditioning to a pop up camper and A.C. Well we have a pop up but no A.C. instead we have the monster king fans that cool things off really fast. So last night we had a great breeze coming off the lake and slept really well. We planned to get up at 7am and start biking around 9. God had a different idea, it started raining around 6 and was still raining at 7 so we slept in a little and it stopped raining at 8:15..

Dad started breakfast and we had omelets with bacon and raisin Thomas English muffins. It was so yummy. Then by the time we were on the road and started biking it was 11am. The support crew left to go on an adventure of their own as Tommy and I started biking. We started at the Meat Market where we stopped on day 1. We went on Rt. 50 for a while. The nice thing about the roads is they have really big shoulders. There is enough room for another lane in some places. (the township really thought ahead) We went over 2 bridges today, but they were not as bad as they looked. We had a great time memorizing bible verses along the way. After about an hour Tommy started getting hungry so we ate a trail mix bar. After another 45 minutes we had a package of peanut butter crackers. Once we reached 20 miles we thought about stopping for lunch and calling the support crew or we could keep going and do the whole 30 miles… When we got to the 20 mile mark we ate another trail mix bar and kept going. We had one more package of crackers left and ate them with 7 miles to go. We called the support crew and kept going and in 45 minutes they caught up with us at 2:22pm. We went 30 miles and dropped the tailgate of the truck to put the tomatoes on the sandwiches and prayed for our lunch! We were so thankful for Lunch! Dad and Jacob had waited for us to eat lunch so they were pretty hungry as well. We got in the truck and headed back to camp and ate our sandwiches on the way.

While we were biking the support crew went fishing. Once they dropped us off they went back to camp and grabbed their fishing poles headed out. They brought their bikes and went down a trail so they had a mini mountain of their own. Dad caught a tree first and then Jacob caught one too. There were lots of people in canoes, but no fish.

When we all got back to camp after lunch we went swimming in the lake and Jacob, Tommy, and I swam across the entire lake. J We had a lot of fun and then got ready to go to dinner at Pastor DeNick’s. Mrs. DeNick had a wonderful meal for us. They are so sweet to open up their home to us and invite us over for dinner. We had a great chat with them about India and all sorts of stories were shared.

We came back to camp and are now sitting in front of the fire enjoying marshmallows before bed. J We will be presenting tomorrow at Pastor DeNick’s church. Thanks for all of your prayers. We hope you enjoy the pictures.

Mr and Mrs DeNick

Our display at the church