L.A.T.E Ride

Saturday was a pretty interesting day for us. After we tried to look at apartments in the morning and we were stood up, again, we had some donuts, because I like to eat donuts when I'm pissed. Then we split up, I went home, and then we went BACK to the same building for an open house. We found an apartment we really love, but more on that later. Then we went home for a nap to get geared up for the L.A.T.E Ride. We had some Mexican food at my dad's to get fueled up and then went home again for another nap.

Finally after a day of napping and eating to prepare, we left for the ride around 11pm. Needless to say we were there extremely early and waited for what felt like a million years. This is us waiting around.



They let us go in waves, we were the middle group, but we didn't even start biking until 1:55am! There were so many people there. The area around Buckingham Fountain was TOTALLY packed with people.



The biking part was really nice, because the weather was great for it. It was a beautiful clear night, and we even saw stars! They also had all the roads closed off for us, so we could zoom around and through traffic lights and everything, it was so cool. It was interesting to see a lot of different neighborhoods in the city, and hear all of the crazy people honking and cheering us. There were plenty of drunk people out too getting really excited about seeing all of the bikers. After the long ride, we both had sore butts, but Tom was ready to eat....of course, because that's what he does. All in all it was a fun experience, but next year, we would take more naps, and go to the race a lot closer to the start time.