Vern's bike buddies - Trix the rabbit
Vern's bike buddies - a two headed dragon that talks, and the mouse from Charlotte's Web
Bill napping before dinner52.26 miles
14.1 mph average
After a great breakfast at the hotel with Jodi, Cathy, and Bill, Cathy gave us a ride down to the middle school to get our bikes and get on the road. Today was all rolling hills that got a bit steepter for the last 10 miles. What a short ride! Got to Maryland at mile 7.8. It was a very nice ride. The city of Frederick, MD is a beautiful old city with gorgeous old buildings and row houses painted different colors. I rode with Adam, Margo, Greg and Mary for a bit and finished the ride with Jerome, Mike, Rodney, and Greg. I got into the campground at 1:something. It was nice to set up the tent and just sit around relaxing chatting with different people. Eventually, I started to get ready for tonight's festivities. Our last dinner together! We all have mixed emotions right now. My body is ready for a break but I'm not ready for this trip to end. The beautiful simplicity of life just can't be matched - it is wonderful! And these people who have become a tight community - I'm not ready to leave that.
We are being fed at Applebee's tonight and we are being shuttled there on a mini bus thing. We all put on our nicest, cleanest clothes for a night out. After dinner is the wedding ceremony. Jay and Nick have planned a spoof wedding for Margo and Adam (who have become great friends that spend almost all of their time together). Jay has put a lot of time into planning this and there will be a rabbi for Margo and a priest for Adam.
Dinner is wonderful, I was able to get a head shot taken of each rider. Brack and Jean Anne are even there with us! Brack had got up and spoke to us and it was very nice. Bob Jones also got up to speak and it was really great! We have amazing people in this community! Dinner went so long that the wedding is now going to be held back at the campground.
Bob Jones is our priest and Rodney (who lives in Isreal) is our rabbi. Margo and Adam are just going along with this in good humor. Nick gives Margo away (because Greg is out with his wife at a hotel for the night) and Helyn walks Adam down the aisle. The priest goes first and unites the couple with wonderfully unique vows - together in riding for the rest of the trip. They exchange wheels and have a "quick release" clause added in, just in case (these vows were written by lawyers (Jay and Nick) of course). The rabbi now does his ceremony and covers Margo's head in white cloth, which she keeps undoing and getting yelled at for. There is a tent fly canopy held over them and Adam breaks the wine glass and we all yell "Mazel Toff?" After the exchanging of the vows, Jodi and her back up vocals sing a great song and Kari finishes with another. It was hilarious! The wedding is followed by the big ideas of Brian and Phil that came to them on the ride, which were also hilarious! It was a great evening! I didn't want it to end, but eventually I decided it was time to go to bed, so I could be up and ready and out early to make it to the restaurant by 10:30 in DC. Tomorrow is going to be a slap in the face of reality - it really is over and I'd rather just go to sleep now and not think about it.
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