b&b does prom

One of the ways we broke up the monotony that is Nevada was by having prom in an elementary school gymnasium in the small town of Eureka. The build up to the big event was arguably as much fun as prom itself. We held a competition to determine who would be elected to prom committee, which was more just people competing for the sake of competing and less because they actually wanted to do anything with the committee. Nonetheless, people partnered up as potential presidents and running mates. The competition was a three-parter: First came the granny gear race, which is exactly what it sounds like. Participants raced each other in their smallest gear, spinning wildly and not moving very fast, in short a ridiculous amount of hilarity to watch. Here's a shot of the finish line, and some of the spectators:


The second phase of the competition was cut short because of an accident, in which Drew was a bit overzealous in his attempt to secure the position of president of prom committee and managed to shove his leg directly into his spokes, causing him to flip over the front of his bike. The video clip of this fall is absolutely amazing, which I can say now because Drew was relatively fine except for some bumps and bruises and the need for a new wheel. After a day in the van he was back on the bike using a temporary wheel that was mysteriously in the trailer with no one claiming ownership. In any case, the second phase in the competition was a trackstand-off, in which participants were timed doing track stands, and the third phase was a no pedal race in which participants competed to go the furthest from a slight incline without pedaling. This is how we entertain ourselves, and even though I'd like to blame Nevada, it's really something we would have done anywhere...

Another great part about prom was the creative ways people asked each other. People used chalk, wrote poems, took pictures and made prank phone calls. It was so much fun to hear people scheming and devising ways to ask each other, everyday at lunch there was a new story to hear! We voted on a theme which turned out to be ABC, Anything But Clothes, and that provided entertainment as well while we all plotted our outfits. I wish I could post more pictures to show you the creative costumes that people came up with, but I've only got this one for right now:

Some people went as the lunch tarp, cutting up and duct taping dresses together, people wore old tubes, bike parts, flip flops, ect. Robby and I went as the Med Kit and wore ace bandages and plastic bags. It was so ridiculous and amazing. We had the coolers as decorations and made an aisle out of our bike shoes. It was so much fun, dancing in a gymnasium in the middle of Nevada after really tiring days of non stop mountain passes and endless valleys.