Day 12 - Floof me!

Today we woke up with our legs feeling pretty tired. We got ready and Nico took us to the open market that happens ever Sunday down a couple blocks from his place. Speaking of Sunday… we had no idea today was Sunday. Somehow we missed a day. In the message we sent Nico the day earlier we even mentioned that we would be arriving a day earlier than expected. Apparently not though. The market was cool, and we bought some fresh veggies to make Nico and his flat mates pizza this evening. The reward for making it to Paris in one day was supposed to be pickles and cheap champagne. We found cheap champagne but not too many pickles unfortunately. Its unbelievable the lack of pickle selection. Victor always talked about how the Pols brought all the good stuff to London and this side of Europe and I’m starting to believe him.

We’re pretty much just sitting around the flat trying to find another couch to surf for the rest of the week. Nico wasn’t sure if we were coming so he let other surfers stay with him the rest of the week so we need to leave tomorrow… Mostly we are being lazy today because of the amount of miles we rode yesterday. We met Nico’s flat mates and ate lunch with them. Very nice people! We discussed how crazy we were for cycling and how we should meet up with them when they are in Cleveland. We offered to go up to visit and/or to bring them down to Columbus with us. Nico mentioned wanting to see a typical “American University”, plastic red cups and all. We said Ohio State would be a great place to visit if he wanted to see typical and trashy.

At the end of the evening we ate our pizza, that was pretty good but different than how we usually make it, and we went out on a night ride. Nico and Toma were taking photographs for a video they are working on so we went along for the ride. And we finally drank our cheap champagne!