Keep Calm and Bike On!

     HOLY POOP!  These last few days have been exhausting!  It feels as if we were fundraising non stop this weekend.  First off was Stony Brooks Earth Day fair, Earthstock,  where Kathryn and I set up an exhibition about Bike & Build and a trainer (which turns your road bike into a stationary bike, courtesy of Campus Bicylce!) and biked all through the the fair from 11am to 2pm.  We switched off every hour of course but it was still pretty draining.  There's proof of this somewhere because about 10 different journalism students came by to take unattractive sweaty pictures of us as well as to record interviews about affordable housing which I'm sure consist mostly of heavy breathing and very few words.  We thought it was a bit curious that they would insist on interviewing the person biking and not the person manning the poster prepared to field these sort of questions with more than one syllable.  Our efforts were not for nothing however, one of the reporters it turns out writes for Newsday, and has decided to do a full piece on us this Saturday!  This is one of those rare instances where stoked doesn't even begin to describe how excited we are.  In the end Earthstock was a great success as far as getting the word out.

     On Saturday we did the whole shindig over again for Stony Brook's Science and Art Expo only this time we each rode for 2 hours (actually Kathryn rode for an extra 30 min because she's a bit of an over achieve *cough cough* oh excuse me).  By the end of these two days  we were $100 closer to our goal and ready to keel over.  Lucky for us we got to sleep in till 10 on Sunday but at 12 it was back to work because we had taken on the important role of providing the Greek Olympics with snacks and lemonade as they fought head to head in prestigious activities such as the wheelbarrow race, water balloon toss, and clean your space (yea I had never heard of that one, either).  Though this event proved to be a bit more low key, Kathryn and I did discover that we are incredibly skilled at three legged races.  I'm not sure when that will come in handy though.

Well we are one step closer but still so far away.  Please continue to tell your friends and family about the cause and as always we want to give a big thanks to our donors so far!