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Door: louisz / 11 February 2007 / 09:02 / 2393 Hits / 4 Reacties

Last Days 7/2/2007, All over the place
The wind finally picked up and we drove down east to go to the Ritz. It wasn't as strong as we thought it was, but I took my 12m2 and was powered enough to stay upwind but not powered enough to do a trick. I went in for my 15m2 and when I went out on that I was lit so I went to switch to my 12m2 again. I was perfect until the wind decided to quit on us. While we were packing a ton of guests from the hotel came to ask all kinds of questions. After we answered about all of them we went back home. The next morning the wind picked up lot and we went with the Bertram to an other small Island called "Sandy spit". After we cleared customs we closed the valves on our kites and peddled them in on a long board. I pumped my 9m2 and was perfect for a while until the current changed. Only Madi could still go on the long board and his 10m2. So we just chilled there eat some food we brought and packed up he boat to go back. Madi kited to the next island and thats where we picked him up. On Super Bowl Sunday the wind was perfect in the lagoon. So we went there for our last session. It was a lil sketchy launch, but once your out it was perfect for my 9m2. I had a good time, but with tricks I didn't really have my day. The only thing I could do where kiteloop handle passes. Jacky and Jon where catching dinner while we were kiting. Once we were all done kiting we packed up and went back home. For diner there where the yummy fresh lobsters Jacky and Jon caught. During dinner the Super Bowl started and we watched it. When we were done we all fell fast asleep.
The next morning was packing and saying good bye. The flight leaving from St Thomas was 2 hours late and we would miss our connection in New York. So we changed it at the checkin to St Thomas -> New York -> London -> Brussels. So we got our tickets and on two of my tickets where SSSS. So in St Thomas I got an secondary security check. So they fully checked me out. I gave my bag to 1 of the other guys, so they didn't had to go through that and safe some time. All was good and I could walk on. So we got into the flight and landed in New York a couple of hours later. We came out of the gate and we checked what was up... Guess what... the plane we thought we would never make was still there, so we checked if we could go in there instead, but we had to follow our luggage. So instead of going straight to Brussels we took a D tour through London. We went to Starbucks to get something to drink and went on to our next gate. Half way down to the gate we heard our names for the final call. So we started sprinting. We had to go through security again and I had an other ticket with SSSS on it. So I got an other secondary check. But this time I had my bag on me. So the other guys where already through and went to stop the plane. The check only took a couple of minutes, but seems for ever. Once I cleared I sprinted with my every thing in my hands to the gate. I made it so I got on the plane and it was so funny all the people where looking very unhappy at me. I could care less so I got to my seat. The whole flight was perfect, cause we had a pretty new plane with a screen in the seat infront of you. we even had a phone to make way to expansive calls. So we touched down in London and went to the next gate... When they started boarding it was our turn and they said the tickets where not valid. So we sprinted down to the ticket counter and got send up to the gate and all was good. We got to our final destination Brussels. With all that running and sprinting we did I didn't think out bags would make it, but I was wrong. We got all our bags and went outside where my girl was waiting for me.