Flight

The adventure started just getting to the airport.  We were supposed to leave Bakersfield at 1 to be in San Francisco airport by 5, but that didn't happen.  I picked up a CSUB basketball player, Rashad, who's also going on the trip then we went to meet our team leader Carl at his office.  We packed the luggage into a van that we're going to take.  Carl sent us to cash some checks then we went to go get some food.  Carl had to make another couple of stops before we finally got on the freeway.  We hit the roat at 3.  We made a stop to use the restroom, where there was a line, and their own dude sprinted like Usain Bolt to crowd the line.  I figured he had to use the restroom more than me.  There was some traffic on the way there, so the van driver was weaving in and out of traffic.  Then we got a call that one of the coaches who is going on the trip left his passport at home!  His wife didn't have her cell phone and his son was at work.  We had to change our route in order to get the passport in order for the coach to get his passport.  Rashad hopped the fence even thought a dog was in the backyard.  Luckily the dog was friendly and didn't bite.  We looked around for his spare key but couldn't find it.  The coach's son rushed home from work to find his dad's passport and give it to us.  This was at 7:30 and we were scheduled to arrive at the airport at 5.  We finally got to the airport around 8:45.  We had to shuffle some items around in the bags in order to meet the limit of 50 pounds.  We got to the gate around 10, but luckily our flight go pushed back to 11:10.  I got to meet the fellow members of the mission team, they all seemed really cool.  The flight was smooth, and I got in some good sleep.  Airplane was a huge double decker.  It was a long flight, 14 hrs, but it really didn't seem that long.