Let's start right with the prep. We are kind of at crunch time now trying to get everything shipped off by Aug 10. You are allowed to take 2 bags (each weighing up to 75 pounds) with you on the plane. Everything else is shipped ahead of time by boat from California. To ensure it makes it in time, everything must arrive in CA by Aug 20 so I need to get this stuff out the door. Plus, someday Steph will come back and want her desk back.
What do you do when you don't have an 8 foot bag to put your collapsible tower into? You sew one. Thanks goes to my advisor Rachel for putting up with my inept sewing skills (and then being stuffed into the bag to make sure it works). At least our bright orange Hawaiian themed bag will be visible from the helicopter.
Construction of our tower is still somewhat of a mystery for Rachel. I think she believes I just took a random pile of metal and cables.
Eventually we assembled both towers indoors, where it is nice and warm, with comfortable clothes, no mittens, no wind, but no snow either. Each tower took about 45 minutes to build. Any guesses for what that translates to on the ice? Needless to say, we got a lot of strange looks at Thayer.
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