I'M LEGAL!

Ok, probably not the most appropriate title for my blog considering family is going to read this but oh well.

Let me first start by thanking everyone for their Birthday txts and emails. Really appreciate it. Replied to all of them so hopefully you got it!

After getting to be at around 1:30am, body clock decided to wake me at a rude 6:00am. Decided to build my bike whilst the other girls woke up then we ventured down to main street (which is ironically the main street of the town, very imaginative aren’t they? Our house is on normal ave. classy) and had breakfast at a cute little diner where I had possibly the best breakfast ever. No joke. I had French toast and it only cost me $3.70. And I’m talking for 4 slices of the stuff! I love American food! If I keep eating the way I have been these last few days I’ll defiantly be coming home looking different, have 3 chins instead of the normal 1! We then wandered round the street, and Rick (our coach) took us to the petrol station where the boys and him apparently spent the most of the night making friends with the local coppers and the night shift workers with their giant slushies (giant slushies are definitely on my ‘to do’ along with the bars of cookie does, smore poptarts…basically the whole confectionery section lol.). We then hit up the local dollar shop (where everything is actually $1, not $2, $3 +) to buy some necessities. However, just like to mention that on the way to the dollar shop, we did pass a drive through pharmacy and bank… weird? I know. One of the highlights at the shop had to be being able to buy fireworks for $1! They’re barely legal in Canberra and here you can walk in and buy them for a buck. And buy them we did. We also bought other necessary items such as silly string (for those unlucky enough not to have encountered silly string before, it is basically spray string in a can), guns that shoot balls and a pretty cool birthday balloon lol. We then came back and went for our ride at around 1. The US juniors came and picked us up and we went on an easy roll over to the velodrome. The juniors seem really nice, all very friendly and seemed just as eager to meet us as we were to meet them! The velodrome is also really cool. It’s a really nicely sealed outdoor track (there are pics of it in the album). After our ride, Rick and us girls cruised over to the local bagel shop (again, cannot get over how cheap the food is.. $1 for probably the best ever cinnamon and raisin bagel I will ever eat. Also to add to the ‘to do’ list, try a chop chip bagel…sounds good). It was about 4 o’clock by the time we got home and it was creeping up to 5 when we realised we hadn’t eaten lunch… so supper was our lunch. By this time, it felt like we had been here for weeks and we hadn’t even been there 24hrs. We decided that the boys would meet us for dinner at 8. By the time we knew it, it was 8:30 and still no sign of the rest of the boys. 9 came around and we decided we’d have dinner without them…it was 11 before we called it a night and half of the boys and Rick still hadn’t shown up for dinner. We figured that jetlag would have taken them as they didn’t sleep a wink the night before because they were having too much fun down at the servo with Carlos the nightshift worker. We had a yummy cake and cookie dough ice cream for dessert. The girls possibly also started what could be WWIV by ambushing the unexpected guys who showed up for dinner with the silly string which, as our lovely manager mum Audrey put it ‘felt like a wet tampon’ haha… it was gross and sticky. Needless to say, the boys decided that a payback would be in order and we were ambushed unexpectedly with the rest of our own supplies. The worst casualty, Brodie, who suffered a direct attack to the hair. She took it like a champ although it took for ages to get the sticky mess out. Brodie also copped another surprise when she woke up with a lollipop stuck in her hair, one which the boys had licked and placed unexpectedly on her pillow case. Gross, I know.

So that was the end of Day 2 in the always lovely US of A. Still having a good time and can’t wait to get stuck into some serious racing tomorrow.
Until next time
xo