We are busy preparing for our fifth bike tour in Europe. Or avoiding getting ready. It is so much easier to go for a bike ride instead, using the training excuse. I have come to the conclusion that we both work better under pressure, and I am starting to feel it.  

To complicate matters,  I was working in the house on Sunday and decided to toss a few things in the laundry sink to soak before I washed them. I left the room on a quick errand while the water was running and became distracted. An hour and a half later when I went downstairs we had an inch of water in our family room. 

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In the end we had to call the insurance company. Here is the next iteration of our family room.

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Now the area is full of enormous fans and dehumidifiers. All because of a moment of inattention. The good news is it wasn’t the night before we leave. The water was clean. We are insured. We can put it all together again when we get back. It took me a bit to wrap my mind around that as my sister and husband are coming to stay in the house while we are gone, but the family room is in our finished basement so as long as we clear a path to the laundry room they will be fine. Still, what an idiotic thing to do. The insurance company tells us it happens all the time. 

So with the basement drying out (it takes days) we can turn our minds to packing and the little details, like passports. I am always terrified of forgetting the passports. The bikes have been tuned at North Park Bikes, our wonderful LBS, we have treated ourselves to new shoes and cleats and the Chief Navigator (CN) is planning our route. As usual we have booked our first night and last night at the airport hotel and then we will see. We fly into Zurich and will spend about a week in Switzerland and then are heading east into the Dolomites.