Day 55
July 26th, 2007

Rain Rain
So I was kind of asking for it. I was just bragging the other day how wonderful it is to have such great weather. It rained the whole ride and stopped right when we stopped ridding. The day was started off with a great sponsored breakfast at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house at Indiana University. The ride was almost completely flat. In Indianapolis our lodging was at Marion College. Marion is the place that our cycling coach, Dean Peaterson, teaches and coaches. We stayed in the dorms where we each had our own bed and every two rooms shared a bathroom. Lunch was some delicious pizza at a local Indianapolis pizza place. They even had a special Journey of Hope cake! After lunch we headed back to the dorms and a few of us went out to do some errands to WalMart. For dinner we went to one of the local recreation center and had nice spaghetti dinner with a local power soccer team. Power soccer is a game of soccer played in a powered wheel chair. The chair is equipped with a metal guard on the front to hit the ball and protect you from being hit by other players. The ball was a little smalled than a beach ball but was hard much like a traditional soccer ball. We all had an opportunity to play the game but no one seemed to do all that well at it. It was a lot more difficult than it appeared to be. After dinner Andrew and I took a short ride across campus to the Marian velodrome (cucling track). A few groups were practicing. I was interesting to see how different this cycling is in comparison to what we do. After that a few of us went out for a late night snack. We went to White Castle. I had a few little mini burgers and some chicken rings. The food was disgusting! Absolutely the worst fast food I have ever had!