Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone had a good Halloween and NYC Marathon weekend. Our busy marathon rush continues this coming week here at Bike the Big Apple, but all has gone great so far. On Friday, Levi and I led 48 Dutch marathon runners and their family members through Central Park, Harlem, and Morningside Heights. I led the tour as Colonel Mustard from Clue, complete with the monocle to inspect the official New York City Bike Map as I showed the riders the route. Levi went as Moe from The Simpsons. His Duff beer mug was perfect for collecting tips at the end of the ride. The only missing accessory was Moe's pickled eggs, which came after the tour!
I'm not quite sure the customers fully appreciated our outfits but we made them smile and that's all that counts. The ride was only 3 hours and with a group this big, first impressions are everything; the first impression they got of us was a couple of oddly dressed, young, New York bike riders who seemed very foreign to them! We explained that it was Halloween and they asked a few questions here and there, but for the most part, I'm pretty sure they walked away thinking that this was essentially our standard look (I'm only half kidding here). Either way, they called me Colonel throughout the day and the beautiful fall afternoon made it hard not to enjoy the ride.On a side note, this week, Levi premiered the model he recently built of the Freedom Tower that is due to be finished in 2012. This impressive piece of construction (his model, not the Freedom Tower, whose foundation has only just appeared) is over 2 feet tall and is almost perfectly to scale. Levi will be carrying this model in a tube on his back during all future Lower Manhattan rides!