Day 6

Today was day 6 and we left from lake Tahoe in California to the capital of Nevada, Carson. We were happy to hear of a rather late wake up and a short ride of 30 miles, we were even more surprised after we learned we would be heading to two friendship visits to preform our puppet show dubbed kids on the block. We packed up and enjoyed our lovely crew chief breakfast

I left that day expecting a crazy difficult day but after climbing I was granted with a yellow sign that almost made my heart explode of excitement. 9% grade for the next 8 miles. It was the most beautiful thing zipping down a mountain at 40mph, that is until we hit a sign that said "fresh oil". After speaking with the team we almost all freaked out when we saw that because there are a few things you don't want to see when going down hill and that is one of then. After the lovely downhill we hit the green flat plains of Carson and enjoyed a quick and easy ride.

We first headed to the boys and girls club which is a summer and after school program and we enjoyed a lovely lunch of pizza and salad. Then we spent time playing with the children and eventually watching our own puppet show. For a bit of rehearsing, our guys did amazing. And the one of the funniest part of the day, our own funny man Jack, showed bicycle safety to the children. He was telling them to check their brakes and he was flailing his bike around. We also learned a clapping cheer called "energize".

The second friendship visit was at the children's museum, which makes it seem even worse that we had so much fun playing like kids. Eventually we ended up watching the puppet shown again and then watching Jack explain safety on the bicycle again.

We enjoyed a huge and amazing dinner at the house of Billy a rotary club member. The food and house was amazing and we enjoyed the whole time we spent there. Afterwards we had a team meting and people were presented awards for being awesome. After that we all ended up heading to bed as we were all tired from the long day.