Day 15: Eureka!

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Brian here with our second rest day of the trip! Today we were in the town of Eureka which is only about a mile from the Canadian border and is has some incredible views of the Rocky Mountains around us. 
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Yesterday was definitely a tough day for the three of us (me especially) and we decided the best method to recover was to shut off our alarms and sleep in as much as we could. We finally started rolling out of bed and taking showers / getting breakfast ready around 10:00 before starting to try and plan out what we wanted to do for the day. Most of that consisted of sitting on our butts but we played some cards (Dustin is still destroying us at any and all card games), tried to learn how to cartwheel, and played some basketball (we were all terrible).
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Early in the afternoon, I was on a phone call when Julia pops her head around the corner and says “wanna go to Canada?” and obviously I had to say yes to that! Unfortunately though when we arrived at the border (a 5 minute drive) we found out from possibly the nicest border security guard ever that there is now a whole application process for getting into Canada with vaccination status and passports needing to be uploaded to a website. We decided that our maple-syrup enthusiasm wasn’t sufficient to go through all that and decided to just do some errands and check out the Eureka. Turns out there is a nice little historical site which had a lot of old farming machines and tools that were used in the 1800-1900s and we had a good time exploring that!
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Some other highlights of the day included finding out at a nearby playground that while Julia can’t do a pull-up she is still the strongest of the three of us which we determined by arm wrestling. We also visited a few of the shops around town and stuck our advertising cards on every bulletin board we could find! 

After dinner at a local diner, we set up camp in a park on the edge of town and are headed to bed so we can get an early start to tomorrow. We have to actually be on time for our early start tomorrow though because the automatic sprinklers turn on at 7:00 AM and we don’t want to get caught by those!

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“My legs hurt” - Brian Legato

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