Seattle to Portland – Day 6: Team Here

Well, didn't make any notes, so I'll just make up the times...

5 a.m.
MV wakes. MV disappears. I assume it is a bike ride. I sleep again.

7:21 a.m.
I wake. I write addresses. Steph says 'bye and is off to catch the bus to work.

8:30 a.m.
John is off to work too. No idea where MV is.

9 a.m.
Must stop invites before hand falls off. Hand is required for ride. Go for a shower instead.

After shower, walk into room and MV is laying on the bed. Apparently he has been in the garage building the Green Egg. But told no one so it is all a surprise.

10 a.m.
We walk to PCC for supplies. They have no choco-coconut bars, but I get all sorts of other stuff, including more wheat-free zucchini bread. Then we walk to Safeway to get the truck. They also have no choco-coconut bars, but they do have Jovy Fruit Rolls. I am so excited, I buy a giant armful. See, it happens like this. I get to the register and the cashier asks if I have a Safeway card. I remember that I did get one when I was in CA at my sister's and we were buying all these fruit rolls that I remembered from childhood (and don't know where to find in MI). So then it hits me - if they have them at CA Safeway, they probably have them at WA Safeway. I breathlessly ask the cashier if they have "those fabulous really big fruit rolls that come in individual packages." I make a circle with my hands to indicate the fruit roll size. She says, "Those ones in produce?" I take off at a run. I ask the produce guy and he points them out. I grab handfuls. The produce guy edges nervously away. I skip gaily back to the register. I am grinning like a fool. The cashier finds it amusing. I swear to her that they are the best fruit rolls in the world (I never eat any other fruit rolls in fact) and happily pay.

Then we get Starbucks.

Then we navigate the truck to the house to load up.

1 p.m.
We check into the hotel. We stash our stuff in our artsy room. We learn the team is on the way so we start unloading the truck.

2:45 p.m.
Truck done. Fabulous! Since bike pick up was technically at 3, we are completely ahead of the plan. We head off to ice skate. We are going to eventually skate in every state. MV started it.

5:30 p.m.
Dinner in the District Lounge - the hotel restaurant. Really, really good. Then we have their ice cream. Trust me, no matter how far away you are, just stop what you are doing and come have this ice cream. RIGHT NOW!

7:18 p.m.
Bike shop down the street. Of course. MV needed some more T-shirts and pretty much dresses exclusively in bike shop T-shirts from vacations these days. We score three, all on sale.

I get a Triathlete magazine. Cuz I need something to do after this ride I guess.

8:30 p.m.
Lazy in the hotel room. Oh look, Glee...