Saturday, May 22, 2010

What am I doing, what am I doing? Oh wait, that's right..

Good evening sports fans,


Well, tonight is our last night in Chapel Hill.  It really has been a lovely 3 days here.  Much was accomplished: houses were painted, roofs were trussed, walls were raised, and my new friend Leam and I have officially dubbed our summer theme song: "Over" by Drake. It is appropriate on multiple levels (and we heard it while we were out on Franklin St on Thursday night and can't stop singing it).  


Earlier today at the build 3 other riders and I built the auxiliary storage/shed onto the back of the house...from scratch.  There was nothing but a concrete base when we started, and now there is a whole shed, with beautifully flushed carpentry if I do say so myself.  It actually was really cool to see something so permanent where there once was nothing and know that your hands built it.   I used the power saw and everything.  Stutte told me I looked "super official" and Andrew told me I looked like "a boss" when I was cutting the wood, haha.  They're such flatterers...


Tonight some locals provided a delicious taco bar for dinner for us here at the church.  People have been so unbelievably generous.  I am absolutely eating way too much.  So much for losing weight on this trip, this is more food than I will ever have available to me.  After dinner we went to see the Durham Bulls (the National Champion Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays) play the Pawtucket Red Sox (you can take a wild guess whose affiliate they are).  The park is really gorgeous, I took a picture that doesn't do it justice and posted it to my twitter which you can follow here: https://twitter.com/BreezyTB.  I'll be doing most of my real-time updating via twitter so check it out to see cool stuff!  (including a short video of our burrito eating contest at Qdoba).  Unfortunately, it stormed like crazy about 20 minutes after we arrived so the game was called (the Bulls were winning).  So we all got soaked but enjoyed some Bojangles (Nate's fave) on the way home.


Tonight everyone is trying to get their 3 days-worth of mess all packed up and ready to go for our 5am wake-up tomorrow.  We have a big 83 mile ride out toward Winston-Salem, where we'll be staying at one of our leader's friend's lake house, which we've heard is pretty legit.  So here's hoping for some good weather and a smooth ride tomorrow.


"And that's what I'ma do 'til it's over, 'til it's over...but it's far from over..."





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