'he HandsOn Service Trip members all met in downtown Battle Creek to begin their journey to Albuquerque. First though, Fr. Bob led us all in prayer before boarding the charter bus. Here is a picture of us before getting on the bus:
After loading the luggage and all piling onto the bus, we headed for Detroit Metro Airport. We got there about 2:10 after avoiding many traffic backups on I-94. Security and checking in to our flight went very smoothly. We had about an hour to roam the airport before taking off for our first stop, Denver.
The flight to Denver was very uneventful. Upon arriving in the airport, we found our next gate, A56, and then split up to find dinner among an array of choices including Pizza Hut, Mesa Verde, Ben and Jerry's, and the ChopHouse. After dinner and wandering for a little bit, the boredom began to set in. So we played games and talked until meeting back at A56. Just before we were scheduled to begin boarding, an annoucement came over the loudspeaker in Terminal A informing us that our plane had just left Albuquerque and our boarding time would be delayed an hour-now 10:20. We were all very tired and quite anxious to arrive at our final destination, but we managed to pass the time quite effectively. We sang Casey "Happy Birhday" at midnight Eastern time as well as singing and dancing in the middle of the terminal. We did the "Cha-Cha Slide" and the "Chicken Dance."
We boarded our second flight at 10:20ish and arrived in Albuquerque just before midnight Mountain time. We waited for our luggage, then rode the shuttle to the rental car place. After a long time (or so it seemed at 1am), we made it to the hotel and checked in. We had finally made it!
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