Day 56 Sunday in St Catherines

It's about 7 AM and a few of us are in the school library catching up on blogs etc. The day's events are pretty well planned out for us, so I'll tell you what's scheduled for the day.

First off, it looks like it's going to be a nice day. There was a call for a chance of rain today earlier in the week. We hope not as the Celebration Service this afternoon will be held outdoors at Queenston Heights. (addendum - it poured at 8 AM, but it's pretty nice now at noon)

Breakfast will be served at the elementary school by Jubilee Fellowship CRC (which I believe is in Vineland). Right across the street from the school is Maranatha CRC where we will worship this morning. They are also hosting lunch for us today. After lunch is the rally preceded by a peach social put on by Covenant CRC (St. Catherines ?) For dinner, there will be a bbq put on by the churches of Welland, Wellandport, Smithville, Fenwick and Dunnville. See what I mean about support and interest? Wow.

So we are heading into the final week. As I've never been to New York, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, it should be quite interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing those parts of the country. I'm really looking forward to arriving at Liberty State Park and seeing my family again, as well as friends and supporters and getting off my bike for more than 24 hours. That will be sweet, but I'm sure as I adjust back to "regular" life, sitting at my desk or whatever, I will think from time to time that it would be nice to be riding my bike in Colorado or Pennsylvania with all the others that we met over this summer. The ride has been a fantastic experience, but even the Beach Boys know there is no Endless Summer, or perhaps better put by the writer of Ecclesiastes, there is a time for everything under the sun (paraphrase - a time to begin a bike tour and a time to end a bike tour).