My day began with a late 7:15 AM wake-up for a breakfast sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. We had pancakes, eggs, and sausage--I also had coffee for the first time in about a month, which gave me more of a buzz than I was used to. After we all ate and introduced ourselves, we all teamed up in groups of five to make dashboard cookies. Basically, we all got a tube of cookie dough and an aluminum platter, and had to make some sort of design on the platter using the dough that we would place on our van dashboards to bake in the Arizona sun. My group decided to make a design of Lake Havasu's popular tourist attraction, London Bridge--one of the guys in our group, Sean Palmer (Colorado), is really artistic, so he did most of the work. The mayor was going to judge the cookie designs later that day after they had baked, so we wanted ours to look the best.
After we made our cookie designs, we went over to a Friendship Visit with some of the people we had met the night before at our potluck dinner. I spent my time doing puzzles with one girl, Margaret, and talking about our pets back home. We started on a 1,000 piece puzzle with a few of the other guys, but we had to leave before we could finish. When I got back to the van, I noticed that our once-pristine dashboard cookie had expanded from baking in the sun, and now looked like a giant cookie-blob that looked nothing like London Bridge. A few of the guys were upset that our design didn't look so great, but I didn't really care all that much.
We had a few hours of free time, so I decided to go to the local bike shop so I could pick up a pair of nicer sunglasses for cycling (the ones I had brought are pretty cheap, and fog up easily while cycling). However, a bunch of the other guys who also came to the bike shop had to get more serious repairs done to their bikes, so I had to wait at the bike shop for the entirety of our free time, just to buy a pair of glasses. When everyone got their bikes taken care of, we went back to lodging to get ready for dinner.
Dinner that night was at the house of the parent of a Pi Alpha in Lake Havasu City. Their house was amazing, and had an awesome backyard with a pool, hot tub, a lot of cool little backyard decorations (including a dog house shaped like a little salloon). They barbequed ribs for us, and made us cornbread, corn on the cob, and lots of other great foods. We spent a lot of time in the pool, and later on watched a few episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger to pass the time. We stayed there until late at night, said our goodbyes, and went back to lodging to get some rest. Our crew chief, Mocha, gave me a haircut in the bathroom using clippers one of the other cyclists had brought--having long hair sucks on a bike, especially when its 100+ degrees out. After getting my hair did, I went to bed to get ready for another day of cycling.
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