Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 2010-2012 Kapa Haka Tour of Western USA 1998 | Page 187

Ngaruawahia High School Kapa Haka USA Tour 1998 - Page 185

The students who are almost all burning the
candle at both ends are beginning to suffer from
small ailments associated with tiredness.
Sixty-six large suitcases were packed and
literally stuffed into Richard Crawford’s room to
await the bell-hops who took it all down to the
foyer for the trip to the airport. Some did a final
run up the strip before all meeting at 11:30am to
leave in cars, organised by the Boulder City

billets, for the airport. One of the group’s Salt
Lake City billets traveled all the way down to Las
Vegas to give them another send-off!
The flight to L.A. was scheduled for
5:50pm and the group had six hours to fill. Some
of the Boulder billets took their charges away
from the airport in that time and returned them
ready for the departure. Others stayed and
entertained themselves in the airport.

The bus from the Buena Park Hotel arrived at the Los Angeles domestic terminal to pick up the group. The bus had
“Ngaruawahia School” pasted by the hotel to the front window for easy identification.

This is the Hanford Hotel, just around the corner from the Buena Park Hotel. Buena Park had double booked (not
expecting the group until the following day). The stay and the meal here were refunded to the group. The suitcases and
the group transferred to the original hotel the following day.