1pm: drive from Cape Elizabeth to PWM with parents and Skyer.
1:34pm: Meet up with Erin, Amie, Mrs. Hatton, and Dana. Graffitti bike boxes with phrases such as "please handle with care" "fragile" and "omg so fragile"
2pm: Receive boarding passes after heckling for lower baggage rate. Check our prescious cargo and watch airport security slice open our oh-so-carefully packaged bikes boxes.
3pm: goodbyes. My father's final piece of advice, "before pulling out onto the road with your bike, check which side of the road the cars are coming so you know which side to ride on"
3:36pm: reading for takeoff, 15 minute delay. Then ready for takeoff
4-5pm: facts McKayla learned from "US airways The Magazine": 1) people who travel and study abroad are "better problem solvers and display more creativity" 2) horses need passports 3) the Munduruku language has no words for numbers beyond five
5pm: arrive in Philly on time, smoothly take bus to terminal A11 and board next plane within twenty minutes
6:40-7:45am: fly up in the air across a large ocean, a few time zones, fittfully sleep a bit, and viola just a hop, skip, and jump and we are in the Netherlands!!!
Wow, I didn't know horses need passports!
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