Since we didn't make it to our planned destination because of the wind last night, we were running pretty low on water. I woke up in the middle of the night really thirsty, but we didn't have any water left in our main bottles. Luckily we had our emergency water bottles in Joe's bags that we could use on our ride to the next town. We planned on waking up early this morning because the wind was supposed to be less in the morning and pick up again towards the afternoon, but when the alarm went off at 5:30 it was really really cold and windy so we went back to sleep. It is always so hard to get out of our nice warm sleeping bag into the cold windy outdoors. We finally got up around 7:30 and ate the yummy zucchini bread that Jackey made for breakfast. Once we were mostly packed, we had to take the tent down quick for fear that it would blow away. The wind was still a head wind, but wasn't quite as strong as yesterday. It took us about 4 hours to get to Osage (about 30 miles away), which is where we planned on getting yesterday before we knew how windy it was. Once we got there we did a little grocery shopping since we were all out of oateal and running a little low on mac and cheese. The little grocery store we went to had really good prices, so we decided to have cereal and milk for lunch along with some grapes and strawberries. We ate lunch on the picnic tables behind a drive in and then went to the gas station to fill up all of our water bottles. Although it was very sunny outside, the wind was very cold so we wore our pants and coats all day (I even had to wear my face mask). To our surprise, the wind died down a little bit this afternoon, even though it was supposed to do the opposite. The next 20 miles went pretty quickly. Right before we came into the town of Manly, a lady pulled over and inquired about our travels. She had just dropped her kids off at youth group and ended up going back to the church for us to check with the Pastor to see if we could camp at the church. When we arrived at the church, the Pastor Don gave us two options: camp there, or go to the parsonage and sleep on a bed, get a shower, and even watch tv! So, we each got to take a nice shower and even watch America's Funnies Home Videos! What a relaxing evening, definitely not what we were expecting, but it was fantastic after our challenging day yesterday! We rode 47.76 miles today.
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