Livingston, AL

7.26.2010

Today was pretty much a day off. We rode about 40 or so miles with an easy rack point. This morning we got to sleep in ‘til 6:15, and had breakfast at McDonalds. We were done the day by 11:00, and we’ve been hanging out at the dorms here at Western Alabama university since. It’s nice to just relax, get cleaned up, and soak up the WiFi.

We had pulled pork and mashed potatoes for dinner. I was sitting at a table with Chris, Troy, and Rich and we were swapping some “Tool of the Week” stories. Each week at chapter, our chapter goes around and tells funny stories about members of the house, and the person involved in the funniest story is the “Tool of the Week”. It was cool to hear other chapter’s twists on this tradition. The stories we shared were hilarious, but their details are not fitting to reprint here.

As we headed home it started to rain. Then it started to pour. We had been blasting music with the windows down, and we decided to keep them that way. We were getting soaked in the car, but it was kinda like one of those foam party raves. We continued our dancing shenanigans when we pulled into the parking lot too, until we were all thoroughly wet and tired. Then, we pulled some of the rain tarps out of the vans, laid them down on a hill, and made an impromptu slip n slide. That went on for about 20 minutes, until a bit of a disciplinary snafu left about 8 of us racked for the next 2 days. Again, the details are probably not fit to reprint here.

It was kind of a downer to end the day on, but at least I’ll have some company in the vans until we get to Birmingham…