Today was a really easy day. It felt like a day off, really. We headed off from Salt Lake City at around 6:30 AM. Our breakfast was sponsored today, so we met our sponsors at a nearby park. They seemed really nice, a little strange and perky, but really nice. They served us full bagels and coffee. It was the first time I had caffeine in quite some time, so one cup of coffee easily jolted me. There were a few former Journey of Hope members riding along for today’s ride. Additionally, we were greeted a cyclist whose name I completely forgot but apparently he was a top 10 American cyclist. You can tell his bike was state-of-the-art. We kept on telling about this small trek that we were doing today, roughly 25 miles, but all uphill except for a steep downhill section in the middle. He did keep mentioning that it was the founder of Garmin GPS electronics favorite climb. 
That coffee really helped from breakfast as myself along with a couple teammates really took off and ripped apart the mountain. We were climbing pretty fast, and I guess we talked this mountain up too much. We kept on passing other cyclist waiting for it to get steeper but it never did…maybe we’re becoming better cyclists.
Park City was absolutely stunning. It easily ranks with South Lake Tahoe as one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever been too. I’ve never seen a city as green.
We rode our bikes to Olympic Park, where we had a sponsored lunch at Fat Mike’s Pizzeria. The food was really good, but the portions were really small. After lunch, we hopped over to an Olympic Museum. It was pretty cool to see all the memorabilia from the 2002 Olympics.
Most of us was still starving from lunch, so we went to Wendy’s to get us through the day. I had a couple burgers. Man, am I eating unhealthy.
Lodging today was at the sponsor’s home, and their neighbors. We were staying at their lake house, and wow, it a really beautiful neighborhood and a gorgeous house. At around 6, we got really for another Friendship Visit, where we went to this state-of-the-art facility. Basically, they were a retreat center that hosted a lot of corporation retreats, and used those profits to host other organizations helping the disabled. I was truly jealous of this camp. They had 30 horses for horseback riding, really nice lodging…better than Michigan dorms, a garage full of water sports equipment, pretty of bikes including different road and mountain bikes, a rope course and rock climbing wall. Yeah, this place had it all, and it’s main goal was to serve people with disabilities. After interacting with a few campers at a hotdog/burger dinner, we headed back to lodging to rest off.
Since we had the day off tomorrow, we decided to stay up a little late and watch a movie, “She’s Out of My League.” It was pretty funny, but kind of cheesy. After snacking a little bit on cookies and trail mix, I called it a night. It was pretty nice, I got to sleep on a coach today, which totally beats sleeping on a sleeping pad.
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