Back to the States

After a very, very long day of travel, we made it back to the United States and to Iowa.

Our first flight was 10 hours from Munich to Atlanta. For some, it went fast, because they had countless movies and television shows to watch at the touch of button via the screens on the back of the seats in front of them. For others, 10 of us, to be exact, it was not such a quick ride. Sadly, our screens did not work at all and we were reduced to begging our fortunate comrades to let us watch "just one movie, please?" Brendon and Danielle were kind enough to allow Lindsay and I to do just that.

After getting through customs smoothly, we had a three-hour layover in Atlanta before taking off for Minneapolis. Despite some disturbing turbulence during both flights, we made it through the second one alright.

We got on a bus in Minneapolis and traveled the three hours back to Des Moines. We made it by about 1 a.m., which was like 7 a.m. back in Europe. And we walked sleepily to our cars and then home in the pouring rain.

But despite the fatigue, it was a wondeful trip. Our eyes were opened to many different ways of life around the world, but also to the customs of our school's heritage in Denmark.

Read more about the trip and what it meant to the choir students in this week's edition of The Grand Views on Friday. The story will also be accessible at thegrandviews.com.

Also, mark your calendars now for the choir's post-tour concert at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 5, in the Luther Memorial Church on Grand View's campus.

It was a wonderful opportunity to be able to take you all along on this journey with us. As far as I'm concerned, this blog will be posted indefinitely. Thank you so much for reading.