Travel Notes

At 9:45 the bell team met at the church to get our bells and we promptly left by 10:30.  Airport check-in was easy, and we were quickly on our way to Boston.  Two hours later we arrived in the beautiful Boston airport.  One passport mishap, one missing boarding pass, Ean's security check (again), and a three hour layover later, we were off to Munich.  The dash began.  With an 8:15 arrival and an 8:55 departure we managed to get a workout.  We successfully caught our flight after a lecture from the Lufthansa personnel about our late arrival at the gate.  The 68 seat plane gave us a nice view of the Alps and managed to get us (and all of our luggage!) to Venice on time.  Thankfully, our bus driver was there waiting for us there.

Our  first order of business was finding foam for our pads and we were successful.  We arrived at the Collini factory at 12:15 (local time) and got our pads before they closed for their two hour lunch at 12:30 (Thank you Dennis!).  The trip to the youth hostel, however, was slow due to construction (we were wondering if PENNDOT was here in Italy also).  Once in Ravenna, we had no clue where our hostel was to be found so we stopped and asked someone on the street.  After checking in the local bar, one nice man hopped on his motorcycle and led us to our hostel (thanks!).

Now we are pooped from a full 24 hour day of travel, and we will continue this later.