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Welcome to Indiana!

Today we had our longest day so far, and biked into our fourth state! Right after we left the skies opened and there was a massive downpour, we all got soaked (at least I did) and it was raining so hard we could barely see.  But biking in the rain is fun and it cleans the bikes, and then we all overcame the headwind for 87 miles to make it to Columbus! One group managed to find an exotic animal farm along the way too haha.

I actually didn't take a single picture during the day, FAIL...my camera was in it's waterproof bag and frankly, nothing sparked my interest enough to take a picture of haha.  I got one picture on the day of Kristen, Caroline, and Jen sleeping together on the couch, but I'm using Jen's laptop so I'll save that one for tomorrow, it's good!

About the riding, lots of corn and wheat:

Sadly, there wasn't actually a state sign when we crossed the border.  There was a street that was on the border we rode on, so it was fun to cross the line like 30 times haha weaving across the double yellow.  The whole day was relatively flat, although we were going slightly up or downhill pretty much the whole ride.  What made it difficult was the massive headwind that we had to go straight into, that kinda headwind that makes you wish we were biking from West to East haha.

After lunch and when the headwind started to pick up, I was riding a little ahead of our group so Sarah W came up and joined me.  After pulling for awhile, I was going to wait for the group so I sat behind Sarah and then Sharif came up and asked if we minded if he pulled lol.  So he went a little harder, and we ended up losing the group pretty hard and eventually it was just us two, so I thought we should stop and wait so we pulled over on a nice lawn and took a nap! It was a nice nap, the sun came out for a little while, but the group we had waited for just kept on going by us! So we finished our nap, and with about 30 miles left went to go catch them.  We rode reallly fast for awhile, pulling at 23mph into the strong headwind, and we never saw them... Aileen had a water stop like 12 miles from the finish and when we got there she said that she had passed those guys, but we were the first ones to the stop.  Strange, we waited there for like half an hour and finally we found out that they had a busted tire and had waited in a barn where nobody saw them lol.

A group of us decided to finish up the day, and I was still feeling really good so I pulled pretty hard into Columbus, and Emma, Caroline, and I were the first ones here! The First Presbytarian church here had put us up for three years in the past, and within the hour I was all showered and clean up and eating ANOTHER delicious dinner of enchiladas.

Pictures, from Jen!

A lot of us watched a movie for the night, after a long day, and most people are already in bed!! I got two great naps today haha so I'm good, and so here a a couple of Jen's pictures of the day:

Jesse is expecting for Jen haha. From Ohio last night haha

Aileen was rockin the handstand last night as well haha

Indiana!! (The best sign there was haha)

And so Jen's group found an exotic animal farm along the way...who would've thought that existed here in Indiana. It's actually a non profit orgianization apparently lol

They had real buffalos! Look at how big they are next to Kristen!

Jen with the three day old baby deer, I missed this!

Kristen became known as bamby because of how cute she was holding the baby deer

They even got to play with baby tigers!!!

And what would a day be without a picture of Jesse lol

That's all for now, tomorrow should be an easier day, we get to sleep in an hour and a half to 6:30, yay!!