This is it, our last day before leaving the good old USA! We leave today at 4:30, after our bus driver gets back from doing his normal route. It will take us about 4 hours to get to our hotel in Minneapolis. I sure hope we can all sleep tonight and on the plane tomorrow. When we land in Munich, it will be about 11:00 a.m. local time...that's 4:00 a.m. our time (if I did my reverse time change right, which I have been known to mess up). On our agenda first is a walking tour of Munich. This is to keep us all awake and let us stretch our legs. I believe our trans-Atlantic flight is seven hours long. I'm going to take the advice of my middle son, Aidan, and sleep the whole way because that will make the trip "shorter."
The week leading up to today has been a good one. If anyone had a question or a problem I couldn't fix, I just said ok...whatever, I'm going to Europe. We sent our Forensics Team off to State this morning and I road the bus in with my kids. Connor, the 5 yeard old, said, "Mom, this is kinda weird." I had one little girl behind me say, "I didn't know teachers could ride the bus, too!" It was funny.
As far as I know, everyone has remembered their passports, money and luggage. Now everything just has to stay with us for the next 14 days. I'm not 100% sure when my next post will be, but hopfully by Sunday night I'll have some pictures and some time to write. I am really excited about this trip! It's taken a long time to actually get here and I'm a little nervous about taking care of teenagers. My oldest is 12! Plus, these aren't MY teenagers. I would be less nervous taking my own kids. Anyway, I'm positive we will be having a great time together and I look forward to getting to know some of them better.
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