Ukraine

Sept. 23rd
Portland Airport
9 band members
plus 2 spouses (I am one of those)
and 2 band kids
each of the 13 of us checked one piece of personal luggage and one piece of the marimbas

Here are the marimbas:


After a 10 hour flight we did some Kung Fu in the Amsterdam airport.


In Budapest, we stressed a bit about getting the marimbas through Hungarian customs. But they asked what they were and then nodded us all through. One person asked us if we were going to build a house.

While the adults talked, Xander and XuMei did the only sensible thing: