I’ll be honest, we are getting a little bored waiting for all of our stuff to arrive. There is not really anywhere to sit (besides the floor) and I spend a lot of time (in my head of course) lamenting how much unpacking I’ll be doing next week. Thank goodness we have a) our air mattress and b) internet. The combination of these two things has allowed us to comfortable get fully caught up on this season of “America’s Best Dance Crew.” Thank God we can get one vitally important task checked off the to-do list.

Even with the siren song of spending all weekend rehashing dance-themed television calling to us, we have managed to get out and explore the city a bit. Today, we went to Gasworks Park to check out a bicycle festival called “Tour de Fat.”

We felt a little lame driving to the Tour de Fat, since it was only 2 miles from our house and it’s main goal is to encourage people to bike more and drive less. Well, thanks to the lack of physical possession of any of our bikes and my infamous robot arm, we sucked it up and drove. Next year we’ll ride, I promise.

Once we got there, we didn’t feel so bad though. There were quite a few cars, even though many were a bit more colorful than our 4-door Ford Fusion (it’s a rental and Microsoft pays for the gas. Eh.)

But there were definitely a lot of bikes, too:

We really dug some of the more… creative bikes we saw:

But probably the coolest thing (and the thing that really made me really hate the robot arm more than usual today) was a special area where you could test ride some very special modified bikes:

Mike’s favorite was this guy: