
          Road Trip Part II:  INTERLUDE

          Morning comes.
          It's time to take a tour of 
          the target area.
          Wandering around the snow-covered
          campus
          in such a large group makes reconnaissance easy.

          A quick trip to see the Olympic Oval.
          We find the puffing Zambonie cleaning
          the speed skating tracks
          while Pee-Wee hockey teams practice on the center
          rinks.

          This is gonna be great.

          Exiting the great structure and passing the 
          Olympic monument out front
          brings the target into view.
          15 floors of brown bricked terror called the 
          Engineering building.
          Our trek towards the imposing entrance drags us 
          past one of the many campus parking lots.
          The student tour guide says there aren't any
          in and out
          privileges for it.
          That sucks.

          We're taken for a little spin around the building.
          A select few slip away to check the important details
          (and jimmy some locks),
          while the rest stall with questions about the 
          campfire sculpture
          outside the student lounge's bay window.
          The piece sits in the courtyard.
          Apparently an enigmatic force paints it a different colour
          every year.
           It better resembles a 3 foot high pile of blue crayons
          than a fire, but that's okay too.
     
          Silently the missing members slip back
          into the fold
          and signal that everything is according to
          plan.

          A jump on the skytrain
          (we didn't pay, of course)
          brings us to the Mountain Equipment Co-op.
          Thousands of square feet of 
          fun stuff and
          useless crap.
          More importantly, the tools needed to get the job
          done.
                    
                                - WindRider 
