Offload Your Baggage

We have arrived safely in England today. Our trip started with (at least for me) a check-in to Mineapolis and then a 7.5 hour flight to Amsterdam that seemed to take forever. Everyone tried to sleep on the plane, but you can only sleep so long until you just have to do something else. We each had our own individual TV screens on the front of our seats so you could select your own movies or music to listen to for the duration of the flight. After arriving at our gate to fly to Manchester, we had to wait for 4 more hours until the plane started boarding. By this time, all of us were so exhausted from the time difference that we tried our best to snuggle up somehwere comfortably in the airport and sleep. After landing in Manchester we all easily cleared customs and then proceeded to the train station to take our train to York. That train ride lasted about an hour and 45 mins, and again, many of us were so exhausted that this time was spent sleeping. We arrived in York and had to walk about a mile alongside the river to our hostel. We checked in and unpacked a little bit before trekking out again to downtown York where our tour guide would meet us. When we arrived in Manchester, it was raining and also was the case is York. All of us got to test out our raingear for our bags and ourselves to make sure nothing would get wet. We got to take a walking tour through York with our tourguide as a local resident. We viewed things like the old wall surrouding the city, the smallest window in York and also the shortest street in York among many other things. Then we stopped at an Italian place to eat and all of us were so tired that we hurried back to the hostel and are going to bed after being up for 35 hours.

--Stephanie
PS The title refers to the message we heard over the intercom in the Amsterdam airport threatening those that were late to the flights to have their baggage offloaded. Dana requested that I make this the title.