The Group Email Bump

Thanks to all who responded to my giant group email with a donation, you all sent more than $250 in less than 12 hours.  It is very appreciated.  The traffic volume the email generated to the blog also increased the site’s lifetime traffic by nearly 20%.  Maybe I’ll have to send another…

The riders all arrived this afternoon around 1:00.  By 5:00 they were all checked in, bikes were (mostly) assembled, and it was ice breaker time.  Before my time here at Bike and Build I thought that ice breakers were lame games made to make lame situations even lamer.  My time at the B&B Leader Orientation showed me what a good quality silly game can do to loosen up a group of anxious 20 somethings; we used the same icebreakers with our riders as we did at our own orientation and they worked great.  Common Ground will forever be my fall back tension breaking exercise. I thought the group really had a great beginning today, lots of new friendships.

I got some cool pictures from the day and will upload them in the coming days.

Thanks again to Beaches Habitat for providing some delicious Bono’s BBQ for dinner tonight.  It was a huge hit with all the riders.  Beaches has been a FANTASTIC organization to work with.