We decided to venture out and try McDonalds for breakfast. It was an interesting outing. The food here is quite expensive. A happy meal at McDonalds is about $7. We ordered two McMuffins with Ouef, Bacon, et Fromage (Sans Ouef). I thought my French was good enough to know that “Sans Ouef” meant without egg, but figured I must just be misinterpreting and that certainly you would not make a bacon, egg and cheese English muffin without the egg... but I was wrong. It was a bacon and cheese only McMuffin :)
We spent about 2+ hours putting the bike together. Santana (the bike manufacturer and tour operator) always brings along a great bike mechanic — one who really knows their bikes inside and out. We had been having a clicking noise on our bike for almost 1 year due to an upgrade we did to the drive chain. Leland (the mechanic) was able to listen to it for about 30 seconds and pinpoint the issue. He fixed it as soon as I was able to remove the cranks (where your pedals screw in) and get them to him.
After the bike building session and making sure we had put it together right with a brief test ride, we had the gathering in the hotel lobby to get our welcome packets and our race packets. There are about 70 couples on this week of the trip. There was another trip that started last week that will end after the race, making about 140+ tandems that will be joining the race tomorrow.
We did manage to find a better meal for dinner. It seems that French Fries come with almost every meal.
