Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 2010-2012 Kapa Haka Tour of Western USA 1998 | Page 250

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Pofolks was the breakfast location on the
last day of the tour with most of the group turning
out.
Back at the hotel all rooms were cleared out
with suitcases (73 of them) stacked in Crawford’s
room and along the corridor (with one or two
students standing guard).
All dress jackets were checked and
accounted for (as some were only on loan) and the
group frittered the time away before checking out
at noon when the bus arrived.
With not enough room in the bus’s large
storage area underneath, many of the suitcases
had to join the passengers inside.
Arrived at the Los Angeles International
Airport at 1:30pm (after a little bit of getting lost
on the approach roads) and unloaded the vast
array of cases.
The check-in area was very crowded and
the Kapa Haka group only added to the
congestion at the counters.
Some could not wait patiently while the
formalities were conducted and played on the
luggage trolleys. Some of the boys preferred to
skateboard outside on the roadways while the
others organised the movement of all the luggage.
Once all the administration had been done
and all the luggage was taken care of each group
member was given their last gift from the putea –
$10 with which to feed themselves before
departure at 9:15pm.
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