Leaving Spain today (August 17th)! It’s sad to leave because it has been so much fun, but I think the majority of us are ready to get back to the States. We left the hotel around 10am for the airport. As we said goodbye to our amazing tour guide and we went through security, it became apparent that our flight had been delayed by an hour. So we wandered the inside of the Madrid airport for a few hours and took a little catnap at our gate before finally boarding our plane for Dallas.
The eleven-hour plane ride felt as though it was never going to end. My seat mate, Mae, had a very difficult time dealing with the length of the flight. She would close her eyes, tiredly open them a few minutes later, and ask the time, thinking she had been asleep for hours. Unfortunately, I had to be the one to continually inform her that the flight was still not over. She was temporarily distracted from the plane ride when the animated movie, Rio, began. We all know Mae loves her animated movies, and she was super pumped to watch this one because it was one of the few she had not already seen. The movie was a big hit with the team, especially one song in particular... "Let me take you to Rio, Rio..." Mae has already planned to have it on our warm-up CD.
The last few hours of the flight were definitely the worst, everyone started to get antsy to get off the plane and our team began to crowd the isles as we walked around to talk to each other. We were also starting to get a little nervous about catching our connecting flight. Due to our delay in Madrid, we were scheduled to land in Dallas with only 30 minutes to get through customs, recheck our bags, go through security and board our plane. As the plane landed, we weaseled our way through the crowds to get to customs as quickly as possible. Running didn't seem to help though because the lines at customs were already crowded. Luckily, the airport staff was notified of our late arrival and allowed us to jump all the lines to get to our flight. After our mad dash down the terminal, all 21 of us were safely aboard the plane, heading back to Memphis.
Upon arrival in Memphis, we got out bags, loaded up the bus and headed to campus. We ended up getting back around 12am but thankfully we had a day off to rest before our first day of preseason.
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