Day 2

Here's the important drama of the day worth knowing folks:

1. At 1am last night I woke up to realize that my body did not feel quite right. In fact, I began feeling queasy, and then I realized that I was soon going to be losing my supper. So I went to the bathroom and did just that. Images of my salmon from dinner flashed through my head as my body told me what was not going right in my belly. Then images of Ben's recent food poisoning debilitation flashed through my brain along with the realization that I might be confined to a bed for the next 24-48 hours with that same violent sickness. I said a quick, fervent, and short worded prayer asking God to bail me out, and after one very minimal yak I felt like a million bucks and went right back to sleep feeling like I had escaped by the skin of my teeth! Thanks God!

2. We biked about 50 miles with about 2,500 feet of climbing today...and it got up to 104 degrees. Ouch. Today required colossal efforts at maintaining a positive attitude at points, but our guests were so tough that most of them refused to give up! In the last 4 miles of the day I was just praying that no one got a flat, because I felt like if they did I would probably start crying. That would have been awkward.

3. Justin and I did a joint belly flop into the pool to reward ourselves for surviving the day and managing to have a great time despite all the aforementioned circumstances.

4. At the end of the day I stuck with Risotto for dinner in hopes of sleeping more soundly tonight.

Great Day. As usual.