This is Taz in the boarding hallway to the plane. We left Edmonton at about 8am on Wednesday July 25, 2001. We had been waiting a long time to finally be able to leave Edmonton. I think Taz is holding his boarding pass in this photo.                                                                                                                                   

This is a photo of me on the bus as we rode to Jayson's place. You know what? The internet is a wonderful place. Using Mapquest.com and the site for Twin Cities Transport I was able to get us from the Minneapolis Airport all the way to Jayson's place downtown. Everyone was working, so Taz and either had to cab it or bus it into the city. I told Jayson to expect us at 1:30pm or thereabouts, and so he said he'd try to take lunch late to meet us.

The first thing we saw when we got of our first bus downtown was THIS. The Hershey's Kissmobile. Ribfest, a rib contest and outdoor concert thing, was going on downtown, so all sorts of weird things were going on. We had to find out where our bus was because there were allsorts of detours. We walked up to one and it turned out to be the bus we needed. When we crossed the Mississippi River, I saw Pillsbury (where Jayson works) and then saw this guy that looked a lot like Jayson walk out of the building.

The weird thing? It WAS him. We walked in the door of Jayson's place right at 1:30, and met Hoor, one of his roommates. Plans were made immediately for eating and drinking.