June 28

Woke up at 3:30 am Saturday morning to what was to become a rather long day. We finished up some last minute packing of the truck and headed off to the Pearson Airport. Right when we hit the 401 we were absolutely dumped on.. the entire way there. Our bike boxes got drenched which led to a somewhat stressful departure. With very little help to get the boxes repaired, we were forced by the tape lady to give up the packing tape and the wet boxes were shipped on to the plane.. left in the hands of the Lord. We had a connecting flight in Chicago before making our way to Seattle, Washington. Met a nice young marine sitting next to us on the flight and he entertained us for most of the trip. We were greeted by some huge sea to sea vans at the airport and were trucked over to U of W. It was beautiful there. We built our bikes (with a little help) and fell asleep like precious little lambs.