06 July 2024

Arrived in cold and rainy Amsterdam.  Great airport

And guess what, no lost bags, yesssssssssssssss

we go outside and immediately feel the chill as its probably 55 degrees and raining.

We have some last minute money exchanges and of course we have 2 kids who don't know ther PIN.  UGH

remember those conversations and emails parents???

we finally find our bus and load all 74 kids and we say hi to Coach Lennart and Coach Santi who join us in Amsterdam.  

All on one double decker bus and kids are having a blast. 

1st stop is just outside of Amsterdam, to a wooden shoe and cheese factory and the farmer actually shows us how he makes cheese as well demonstrates making wooden shoes.

And yes, kids buy some cheese and wooden shoes, so much fun.  And the cheese is the bomb, of course I had to buy some as well.

Now have a 6 hour bus ride, broken up with a stop to get lunch, (of course only healthy foods) and then we arrive just outside of Paris about 7 pm.

kids in their rooms, passports and cell phones in my room and a quick meeting to set the tone before we watch some Euros.

Dinner out tonight by team and then curfew as we have 7 am training tomorrow.

if all goes well, Eiffel Tower on our agenda so we will see.

Follow the pics and videos on social media, pretty cool stuff

More tomorrow, Ciao, Ed