Gone Fishin

Our fishing trip was a success!!! While tearing through a narrow road in the woods in excess of 100 mph we came upon a gun club that had a pond full of nasty plants and frogs. Soon after Oscar's first cast of his Wal-Mart fishing pole, we discovered that that's not all that was in the lake. Over the next hour, taking turns with the pole, we all probably caught about 20 fish, a few of which were good sized small-mouth bass. We threw them all back.

For dinner, Jafer hand made us some pasta from scratch. That was cool, I'd never seen it done before. I played the role of the pasta catcher as he fed it through and cranked it through the cutter. While out we also picked up a homade shortbread cake and strawberries at this Amish/Menanite lady's produce stand. With some milk and sugar on top, it was very delicious.

i got noffin to do but write

Just an update:

-Our house is REALLY hot. (Jafer went and bought a fan today so its getting better)
-While he was out, he discovered a farmersmarket where some of the locals take there goods. He got some delicious fresh bread and a couple other farm-grown crops...yum.
-My elbow (the one I hit hard in a crash 2 weeks ago) got swollen again. I think I mighta slept on it wrong and further irritated it by riding. It's pretty big now.
-Oscar dog, Curly, ran away :(
-We live next to the Kutztown bottling plant where they brew beer and make soda. They have a store in the building too, where we got root beer, birch beer, sasparilla, red cream soda, and black cherry.
-Now we're off to find a good creek to fish in....and a fishing pole to buy.

B-E-A-UTIFUL

After yesterday's ride to the velodrome lead by Jackie (one of the women that was already here when we arrived), today we decided to head a different direction, up towards the ridge. Off in the distance, there is a ridge that runs east to west and today we investigated. While it was around 90 degrees outside and felt like 101 cause of the humidity, it turned into a really nice ride. Once we climbed up into the ridge, we just rode along the top of it through the rolling hills and farms where Oscar dropped us a couple times. There are farms everywhere! Everywhere we go is rolling farmland and traffic is very minimal, its awesome, and makes for some really nice riding. Check out a couple picatures I took of the house and ride.

We made it to PA!

Finally, around 10:30 Thursday night I was able to get up off my increasingly soar butt. We had made it to our house in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. We quickly got to unloading the piles of stuff we had managed to jam into Thomas's Volvo and out rental Pontiac. Out of glee for being done with that 12 + hr car ride I proceeded to unload with gleeful shouts and stomps.....until Oscar reminded me that Jackie and Yuki were probably sleeping. I felt kind of bad about that, but in the morning they were very nice and lied to us saying "Oh, no we didn't hear a thing when you guys showed up." Its a pretty skinny little house, only one room wide and three stories tall. We set up our air mattresses in the very top floor and installed an AC unit which, I think, is the single most important piece of equipment we packed....that top floor was blazing hot until we showed up.

Time to go ride, Oscar is already suited up and waiting on me....and telling me how big of a dork I am for setting this blog up.

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