Day 54
July 25th, 2007

Another bright and early start to a bright and happy day! Breakfast was provided for us by Mr and Mrs Pontius who also housed us in their beautiful house. It was a great breakfast of bagels and eggs. The day's ride was a moderately easy 60 miles into Bloomington Indiana. Bloomington is the home of Indiana University. Once into town we had an arrival event at a place called Stone Belt. Stone Belt is an organization that caters to people with disabilities by helping with social abilities. Stone Belt had a great sloppy jo lunch waiting for us. After lunch they had a big carnival set up for us all to play games and enjoy they great day. They had many different stations set up such as bowling, bingo, volleyball and a dunk tank! I spent this time with a guy by the name of Wes. It was funny when Wes and I went to the dunk tank because the person over the pool was a crew member also named Wes. After the great friendship visit we headed over to lodging. While in Bloomington we are staying at the Pi Kappa Phi chapter house. The IU Pi Kapp chapter is HUGE! They have about 180 total members and 92 of which live in the giant house. Before dinner we had a little bit of time to check out the campus with a really special tour guide. Dr Phil Summers is a really well know Pi Kappa Phi who is a previous national president. He showed us the cycling track and a really cool walkway on campus dedicated to the school's greek chapters at IU. For dinner we had a really special dinner at the chapter house. Dr. Summers and the alumni fraternity sponsored the meal. Another special guest at the dinner was a Pi Kappa Phi member from Mercer who was 90 years old!