day 37

our last rest day, we headed out from pat's house and we hit up safeway for breakfast. we then went to go catch the bus from denver to colorado springs; it was a couple blocks away from where we were so we waited for about 10 minutes until it showed up. there weren't many people on it so evan and i each had our own seats and we read/listened to music/napped for the hour or so drive back to co springs. we got dropped off downtown co springs and we decided to hit up the library and catch up on our blog; sadly there is a one internet usage limit per person on their computers and evan already started headed back to eric's house. i started walking back as well and came across their farmer's market, which was cool; not as great as nampa's though! we both got back to the house and went through our panniers to see what we could mail home to try and lighten our weight since it was hotter and going to be more civilized from here on out. we each had a pannier full of clothes, books, maps, and other goodies so we biked over to the post office and got one of those boxes where it has a flat rate fee if you can cram it full of stuff. we just hung out at eric's place reading and napping until eric came home and we just chatted. evan and i decided to treat ourselves to dinner and then catch a movie; we started biking towards the theater hoping to grab something to eat along the way. we ran into a commuter biker who told us about a good chinese restaurant right down the road so we hit that up. it was good food, thank you mr commuter biker! we then watched toy story 3 in 3D since the other regular showing was in 2 hours and we didn't want to try and entertain ourselves for that long. it was nice to see a movie and just relax a bit before hopping back on the bike tomorrow. it was darker after the movie and we had to bike back to eric's house on the freeway so that interesting since their road has lots of potholes and cracks and our lights aren't real powerful, but we made it back in one piece. we just crashed that night to end a great time of rest and relaxation.