Well, today is Jessie and Tim's wedding. I've know I was not going to be able to be there once we decided we were going to go on this trip and I thought by the time it got here I would be able to accept the fact. But, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be to miss it-all I could think about was how they were doing and hoping that everything worked out perfectly- and that the rain would go away back at home! We woke up early this morning to catch ferry at 8. Unfortunately we didn't get to see Lys this morning, but we wanted to make the early ferry so we didn't have to wait another couple hours. The ferry ride was relaxing as it was before, however it made me pretty sleepy just sitting there. The wind was at our back today so the miles went by really fast. Before we knew it we were in Oak Harbor again. On the way through the first time we saw a buffet that was just so reasonably priced and planned on stopping there on the way back through. It worked out nicely because it was a Chinese Buffet, what better place to go to cheer me up about missing the wedding. We still just couldn't believe how inexpensive it was, so much different than AK and Canada! There was a lot of traffic on the road today since it was Saturday, but most of the drivers were pretty courteous, except one. As we were getting closer to Anacortes someone decided make a left turn right in front of Joey. Luckily, Joey saw the guy fly into the left turning lane and could tell he might try to do something like that, so he was already slowing down. Even still, the guy in the red car still managed to hit Joey. It was a very slow crash for Joey and he was able to pretty much lay his bike over and come out standing- so there were no scrapes and nothing was broken. After parking the car, the guy came over to apologize to Joey. The only thing that made me mad was that he said "I'm sorry, I'm not used to looking at the shoulder for traffic." That is the big problem with a lot of the people in cars is that they don't think about cyclists and don't attempt to keep an eye out for them. In the end, we were lucky that nothing was broken on the bike or on Joey. From there we rode into Burlington. Joey set up a host in Burlington- the host that Lea and Greg got to last night. They had emailed us the directions to their house a couple days ago, but we figured we would check them again when we got into town and had internet again. We later figured out later we had to do a little backtracking to get to our host's house, but it wasn't too far, so it wasn't a big deal. When we got there we were greeted by Greg and Lea (Ronja was taking a nap). It was so neat to be able to see them a few months later! We also found out that there was another cyclist there, Edwardo, who had been staying with Donn and Pat (our hosts) for a while to try to finish something he was working on. We had a blast with so many cyclists in one house. Don and Pat even let all of us try to ride their tandem, which is what they ride when they tour. It was a little scary, at least for me since I was in the back, but fun at the same time- it would take a lot of getting used to, that's for sure. Edwardo, Don and Pat made a super yummy dinner part of which was called Moussaca, a Bulgarian potato dish. There was even homemade plum and blackberry cobblers and ice cream for dessert! Greg and Lea got to sleep in the spare bedroom since they had Ronja and we were fixed a nice place in the living room to sleep. Since we don't usually get up as early as we did this morning, we were pretty tired by the time we went to bed. We are looking forwards to the next few days of riding with Greg and Lea. Our miles totaled 51.29 today.
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