manchester

im in manchester, riding bikes all weekend!  yesterday was a big alley cat race, where you basically get a list of checkpoints you need to ride to and get your paper signed then you ride to the next checkpoint.  this morning im hanging out at calvary chapel stockport and going to a men's breakfast thing and then riding back over to the bike activities around noon.  yesterday i managed to plow down a girl on her bike [who was not involved in the race] because she has at an intersection waiting to cross, looked at me coming down the street towards her, and then continued to roll right out in the middle of the street.  then she just froze like a deer in the headlights and we got all tangled up.  somehow her pedal ended up wedged in my spokes so now my front wheel is all tweaked and i need to get it trued before i keep riding all day...

my new shirt!

get it?
haha.
ok off to the coffee shop for my shift.
have a nice day :)

cycle the solar system!!

at church on sunday night i was talking to a guy i happened to sit next to and he told me about this bike trail i needed to check out. yesterday i finally made enough time [and the weather was warm and sunny] to explore the trail. its basically a 6-7 mile trail [10km], along which all the planets of the solar system and located, spaced and sized proportionally to the sun that is located at the beginning of the trail. i rode from the bible college to the sun, all the way out to pluto and back to the sun and finally home for a total of about 15 miles. what a fun day! here's the pictures of my adventures in outer space:


the sun:

mercury:
venus:
earth and the moon:
mars:
jupiter:
saturn:
uranus:
neptune:
and finally pluto:

farndale day trip!

the entire bible college took the day off from classes yesterday and took a coach to farndale to hike around the valley and play in the daffodils. it was beautiful, warm [for england] day. heres some pictures from our hiking adventure. me, rob, macy, and kyle conquered the valley.


i also found a field of sheep and started running around chasing the sheep and got yelled at and rebuked by a whole group of old english people. i could only tell them that we dont have sheep where i come from. they werent too happy with my excitement over the sheep though. :)