Pilgrim Blog: Day 2

Sean L:
The phone rings, and we’re all tired. It is 4:45 AM in Los Angeles. We all rush to take quick showers. We all get downstairs by 5:25, and have literally three minutes to eat. The shuttle we go on is packed. We get to LAX by 6:05. The entire archdiocese of Boston happens to gets its own lines for check in. It takes two hours of waiting in order for everyone to get checked in. Joanne, herself, happened to be checking in for twenty minutes because of her last name being spelled on the visa. We were running behind schedule. We had come close to missing our flight. Five of us happened to go ahead of the group to make sure the flight didn’t leave without us. We had some really good beggars and nice airport staff because the staff pushed the rest of us through TSA. We were about to go on the runway for takeoff when a pilgrim from another group happened to leave their medications and purse inside the airport. That gave us an hour delay.
We had five minutes in between the arrival and boarding time, so we had a little rush. We had some good meals on the flights. The movies happened to be hilarious to most of us(mainly from sleep deprivation).We saw some beautiful sunsets as we were heading west from Honolulu to Sydney, a approximate ten hour flight. The day had its up’s and down’s as it went on. But now looking back at the bad things, they seem funny. We will remember this is a pilgrimage, not a vacation; and that there is no complaining - only fun!
Mahalo: Thank you