Today we rode 60 miles form Seargent Bluff to Dordt College in Souix Center, Iowa. We left camp at 7:30 am this morning and arrived at Dordt at 1:30 pm, so nice to have a short day. I believe that our next 3 days are all over 100 miles. In Ireton a church welcomed us with rootbeer floats, starwberry-bannana smoothies, and bannanas. Thanks so much! The smoothies were amazing! The whole route today was rolling hills, so much fun to fly down and then coast/push right up.
This is my first time at Dordt College. It has a beautiful campus. They offered us bowling, swimming, laundry, hockey at the ice arena, etc. Tonight they are serving us pizza from the Pizza Ranch and chicken in the Campus Center at 5:30 pm. We have our first mid-week celebration service here at 7 pm in the BJ Haan auditorium. Everyone wear your yellow Sea to Sea shirt. We are always a sea of yellow on celebration days with all of our yellow t-shirts. We get to stay in the dorms tonight too. My dad and Mark went into town to the Dutch Bakery (Caseys) while I stayed around the dorm and did laundry and just lazed around. I guess it was my turn to do laundry and it was nice to just relax. You would think that we have planty of time to do that, but we keep busy biking around and doing the everday camp things. Everything is so beautifully green around here - the lawns, the corn, the trees, the soy beans, quite a contrast to the dry desert areas we have been through further West. Pray for a tailwind and endurance and a joyful attitude on these next long days. These prairie states are high mileage weeks, but we are excited for what is to come in the East, more friends and family and fewer miles.
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