The team arrived here at our local airport in Michigan this morning at 9:45 a.m. They were met by District Governor, Pam Harkema, Rotarians; Hratch Badmadjian, scott Meyersieck and Jeff Leipprandt. Also there to welcome the team were returning GSE members Yvonne Brantley and Rusty Laurenz along with son Cramer.
In the process of arriving Katrina seemed to have broken some sort of law. Oh yes, it's the law of sleep. Seems she had been awake for nearly 40 hours (way too long) and our State Trooper, Yvonne was forced to place her in handcuffs! We trust this will be the only time in handcuffs while in 6310!
From MBS, the team was wisked off to Pigeon for their noon meeting and to hear Yvonne, Rusty and Jeff give our return GSE presentation to Jeff's home club of Pigeon. If that didn't put them to sleep not sure what will! Then Ian and his team were in for a special treat of our rendition of "Waltzing Matilda". Finally after many decades of singing this song, Ian was able to share with us the meanings of things like, billibong, jumpbuck, tucker bag, etc. Ian even took the liberties of correcting our song leader in regards to the tempo! Must have been the sleep deprivation?
After a bit of unpacking the team finally made it to their host homes to freshen up a bit. This evening the team will be in for a good ole American barbecue and social time with the Pigeon and Sebewaing Rotary Clubs and spouses.
3 comments:
Hey,
Officer B R A N T L E Y . . .
leave our Aussie girls alone . . . it wasn't her!!
Oh! But thanks for finding them - we all thought they were lost!!
Best wishes,
John.
Congrats on arriving! I wish I could have been there to welcome you, but I don't think my students would have liked that too much. (Or on second thought, maybe they would have liked that!)
Can't wait to see you tomorrow!
Hi John,
Just to let you know, SHE DID DO IT. She wanted be arrested so I gave her what she wanted. You know they have a "get out a jail free" card anyway so no worries. We are taking good care of them!!!
They only other thing that Katrina might get arrested for is Food Consumption. She has a list as long as my arm of all the foods that she wants to try. On the top of her list is a super-sized mackers meal. I told her it could be a law against that:-)
Anyway, I miss you all terribly.
Take care of you for me and tell everybody that I said HI.
Yvonne
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