HALIFAX!

So, we arrived in Halifax this morning at 8:30am local time.
We were at the Ottawa airport at 4:15am...our flight took off at 6am (I slept all the way).

Upon arrival in Halifax, we got our boxed bikes and saddlebags right away, and went to try to piece together our rides.

We found a patch of grass in the airport's parking lot- took out our tools and put our bikes together. Now, it must be said that Rainer, Brad and myself have little-to-no knowledge of how bikes work, or how they are assembeled. So Adrian helped us through the process. Now we know more about bikes.


3 hours later- we were all done. haha. After the assembly- I fell off my bike while trying to hop off of it (don't worry mom, no scratches or anything). It was moderately embarssasing- but I'm sure its something we will all get used to.

That brings us to now- we are still at the airport; we just finished a nice soup and sandwich lunch and soon we will be biking to downtown Halifax...about 30kms away.

Today we realized a few things.

1) Our bikes weigh a whole lot when they are all packed up with our saddlebags.
2) Biking into the wind for 2 months will make our experience much more 'interesting'
3) Our trip's theme song will definately be a wicked-bad rap song called "this is why i'm hot" by mims.

We are pumped.