Well, it is really almost here. It seems like just a couple of months ago that I first heard about this trip (its actually about 10) and here we are, getting everything ready to leave. Tomorrow (well, today but I haven’t gone to bed yet so I still think of it as tomorrow) we are off to Vancouver airport to pick up our team member from Toronto. She’s staying the night here with us before we fly off on Friday. Today I took my bike on the skytrain downtown (apparently I had it aligned incorrectly inside the train because a skytrain cop poked his head in at one of the stations and quite abruptly corrected me. How am I supposed to know if you don’t post signs??) to meet a friend. After giving her the 10lb shoebox carepackage from home (okay, it wasn’t really 10lbs, but pretty darn close…) Janis and I biked down to Granville Island where we walked around for a bit. Then I biked home. It took me about an hour, but now I can truly say I’ve biked home from downtown Vancouver! While walking around Granville Island we saw something that prompted to me to say “That warrants a post on my blog tonight” but now I can’t remember what it was. So Jani, when you read this and if you remember what it was, enlighten me!?! Well, there are still a few last minute things to do before I leave, like sleep tonight, so I’ll go get ready to tick that one off of the list…