Tuesday May 29: The departure...

This morning came very quickly for most of us. The thought of getting up early and making sure we were all packed and ready for our departures this morning. Last night after ur debriefing session we said goodbye to Laura, Corey, Alisa, and Neal. They all are spending some extra time in Europe and had to leave for the airport earlier than our bus did. We loaded our bus at 6:45 a.m. With a planned departure of close to 7 a.m. Unfortunately Mindy and Courtney woke up at 6:50 a.m. When we realized that they weren't on the bus and that they were roommates. But within a few minutes we got them all packed and loaded. We arrived at the airport to the pleasant surprise of the cleaning crew striking, so strips of newspaper were all over and they were chanting and blowing noise makers the whole time. After that we started the process of checking in, which also included our first round of goodbyes. We then got everyone in the Atlanta group check in and went over to say our "final" goodbyes to those we had missed earlier. Which was ather difficult seeing that part of the group headed to New Ark was hallways through security. The awesome Atlnata crew got through security and then realized that the New Ark group was a few ates away from us. So our goodbyes actually came later, many hugs were given, a few tears shed, and many promises were made to see each other again. This is the update from Atlanta: Currently it is 6:13 p.m. Atlanta time, which translates to 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday Barcelona time. We are a little tired, not much sleep was had on the plane. Currently we have been to two different gates and are headed to our third momentarily. Our plane leaves at 8:30 p.m. Atlanta time for a arrival into Wichita at 9:30 p.m. Kansas time. More updates to come later! Kaedi LeFevre, Hesston, Ks