The Trip to Amsterdam

The trip to Amsterdam went fine and the bikes made it through the plane trip without any problems. Aer Lingus lived up to their reputation for great customer service and took two huge bike boxes without complaint. At one point the another check-in agent came over to help our agent. His eyes bugged out when he saw our boxes. She pointed at her screen and shrugged her shoulders. I'm assuming this was a reference to the line in our file that stated we were bringing two tandems on the trip. The only real problem we had was navigating the airport terminals with the boxes. Each door required us to remove the tandems from the cart, carry the tandems through the door and reload them. The most interesting set was those in Amsterdam that consisted of back to back rotating doors. Seemed like I was in the middle of a video game.

We are in Ameroogen staying with family so life is easy as we recooperate from the long trip. The tandems are still sitting in their boxes waiting to be assembled. Assembly is tomorrow's task along with a test trip along the Rhine. I guess this will really tell how well the bike boxes worked. The tour of the Rhine is planned to start on Wednesday.

The kids were great on the trip and are still doing well. We are all fine except for being a bit tired. It is now around 10:00 PM and we are going to bed with only a few hours of sleep in the last 36 hours.