Vancouver -> Portland

We picked up the rental car from the airport in Vancouver and head off to drive to Portland. The drive wasn't too fun since it was raining most of the way and we were actually caught in heavy traffic at the border as well as around Seattle. A nice point in the trip was a stop at Redmond, Washington (the headquarters of Microsoft). There we met the ex-encentuate employee Brandon who should us his sexy new office and took us to eat some pretty darned good sichuan hot pot. We spent a while in Redmond and didn't start the drive to Portland until 6pm which meant that it was dark the entire way there. That also meant that JD was lumped (sleeping) in the back the entire way as well, life was restored to his body only when we pulled into the driveway at marcus's BIG house!