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Right now its 11:00 at night and it feels more like 3 in the morning. This morning i left Redeemer campus by bike to get to Saint Catharines in time to drive to the blue jays game in Toronto. The day was just incredible. Jenna, Aleida, Brian, Doug, Kyle, Theo, Eric and I all got to camp before noon and showered quickly and then left to go to the game. It was awesome. I havent been to a Jays game in years because im not normally really a big baseball fan but it was sweet. (they owned Boston) Then we all came to my house and ate and then we played some street hockey :) and then we all crashed and were watching a movie. (well about half of us were watching the other half fell asleep within a couple minutes) So i have had an incredible day and i think im rejuvenated for another awesome week of the tour.

Sorry i havnt been blogging much ive had internet issues a couple times and my computer died a couple nights ago on me... and well... ive been lazy.

The last night that we were in Michigan, Alex, John, Peter and myself went bull riding! It was INCREDIBLE! The story goes something like this.

Peter knew this guy named Tim and Tim is a bull rider/reptile collector. When I got into camp i showered and when i got out of the shower John and Alex said "hey bradley are you coming bull riding" and i was slightly hesitant at first thinking "um... thats a stupid idea if i ride a bull i could get like... really hurt and i still have a week and a half left on this tour" but then that hesitation was quickly replaced by "well frig how often do you get a chance to ride bulls?" (not to mention if John or Alex was going to do it i naturally couldnt be outdone) So about a group of 10 of us got a ride to the farm only 3 of us with the intent of actually riding the other 7 with the intent of laughing alot and enjoying the show. When we got to farm Tim brought us to his "warm room" this room is a heated shed where Tim keeps all his reptiles. He let us hold a monster snake and an alligator as well as look at all his other snakes. Including a Cobra and a Rattlesnake (the rattler was going crazy the whole time we were in the room) After this we headed to the bull ring. Tim explained the basics of the riding to us and then i foolishly volunteered to go first. I put on a hockey helmet and a safety vest (in case that i got steped on it would save my life) and then i proceeded to get owned by the bull. After this Alex, John and Peter went and then i decided to go for another round on a different bull. This time was much more successful and I held on for probably about twice as long (probably still less then 5 seconds lol)

Needless to say riding the next couple days was very uncomfortable and painful more so for Alex then the rest of us but we all made it. When people would ask me how it was and i had to describe it in short i would say "well it feels a little bit like i imagine getting hit by a train would feel like" but heck id do it again in a second.

THANK YOU so much everyone from the farm (sorry i dont remember all your names) for dinner and for letting us ride the bulls and for just being awesome.At the Jay's gameI know you can hardly see the bull in these pictures ill work on getting better ones from other people as well as a video soon enough.

Lawrance is staring the Alligator down and Theo is playing with a ginormous snake