Bike Tour

After fighting bronchitis for a few days, I woke up on the morning of the Bike Tour ready to rally because it was a part of our Butler Program I simply did not want to miss! Nine am came early that Sunday, and a group of us traveled to Circular Quay to meet our program director and begin the tour. We all got bikes with different Australian names and wore very unflattering helmets with massive ponchos to protect us from the warning of scattered showers - we were certainly a site to see. An hour into the tour it turned out to be a beautiful day and everything we saw was gorgeous. We even biked over the Sydney Harbor Bridge which brought an incredible view of Sydney. With about an hour left all of us were starving and couldn't wait to make our way through the Botanical Gardens to enjoy our lunch on Observatory Hill overlooking the city. On our last stretch, LB fell off her bike by biking directly into a pole while fist pumping to a concert in the distance. After laughing hysterically at her, I followed NY in front of me who decided to cut across the grass. As soon as my bike hit the grass I realized that I no longer had control. Looking in front of me there was a three foot wall with an iron fence above it, and the right of me where NY successfully turned there was a large truck parked. In a split second I had to decide between biking head first into the wall or falling into the truck as I persistently tried to bring my bike to a stop. At the last second, I decided to take the wall, and biked literally head first into an iron fence. My helmet hit the fence and my body flung to the handlebars of my bike. Although it was incredibly painful, all I could do was laugh along with the seven other boys in my program and LB who saw my accident. LB then joked that the following day I would be in the paper with the headline: "Young woman no longer able to have children due to a bike accident outside of the Botanical Gardens." Guess that's what I get for laughing at her fist pumping fall!