In what quite possibly marks the best day of the trip so far, the 1,000 Mile crew had a fun-filled rest day in Ithaca from start to finish. It started with an early morning hike at Treman State Park to see the stunning Lucifer Waterfall, followed by a swim in the ice cold water beneath the lower falls. Then Ruby’s family ordered us delicious sandwiches and cookies from Ithaca Bakery and her great aunt and uncle who live in the area brought it over to us while we laid waterside at the falls. Once we were done bathing in the sun, we biked into the city to drop some bikes off at the bike shop and check into our hotel. Rye came up with an incredible group activity, where we head to a thrift store, pick names out of a hat and secretly buy an outfit for another member of the group. We had a cap of $7 per outfit and whatever was picked for the individual, had to be worn to dinner that night. Luckily, we have some pretty creative and hilarious group members, so the outfits turned out to be quite the show. Most of the boys ended up in dresses, while Jake got maternity pants. Ruby got a rockstar outfit, Grace and Rye got baggy pants, with Rye’s being about 3x her size. Noah picked out my outfit (Katie) but since Noah is so nice and considerate, he just bought me a normal outfit of jean shorts and a sweater. We laughed until we cried and got weird stares all night long and may have even been turned down from a restaurant or two. Eventually, we found Mediterranean food and ate falafel then biked home in our outfits as Oscar managed to rip his dress at the seam. All in all, Ithaca has been good to us!
