Thank You From Team 3467

[BrendanB]

On behalf of team 3467 The Windham Windup we wanted to extend a massive Thank You to all of the teams and individuals who helped us over the course of the Championship event.

12 hours (midnight) before we were due to leave for St. Louis we received a phone call that our bus had broken down with no replacement available. As if planning travel after District Championships was bad 6 hours is worse! Even after we reorganized our week continued to spiral out of control with rental van issues, kids not feeling well, an emergency landed plane in Indiana, you name it!

Teams 319 & 811 graciously squeezed rookie team 4925 who was originally traveling with us into their bus at the last moment. Teams 58 & 133 kindly stopped and left a whole bay under their bus for us to put all of our equipment. On the way back they went above and beyond waiting for our team to finish competing in eliminations & Einstein so we could re-load our stuff on their bus for the long journey home. They pushed back their arrival in Maine to very late Sunday night but they again stopped to unload our equipment taking so much of their time and effort after a long week to help us out.

Countless other teams and individuals offered and helped us out over the weekend. Since the team was delayed by several hours on Wednesday and we only had 3 people for load in teams 1310 & 58 helped us load our equipment into the pits and setup. 126 baked us the best cookies and they (along with so many others) offered us whatever space they had back to the New England area on vehicles or in crates.

Another group who helped us a lot was the unknown individuals who picked the locks to our toolbox since the key was hours away. You guys rocked!

Thank you to Jamee Luce, Jess Boucher, and whoever else was eagerly helping us track down a new bus, empty seats, and plane tickets very early on Tuesday morning!

Finally to our elimination partners who asked us to join their alliance (2590, 1625, & 1477) we thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to play with you. After the crazy week we had ending it with a trip to Einstein was quite possibly what made the entire week worth it. Your teams are full of some of the nicest people I have worked with in FRC and I look forward to when we can play on the same side of the glass in the future!

To anyone who helped our team or offered their assistance we sincerely thank you no matter how big or small and we hope we can do the same for you in the future if not more!

See you all in the off-season and 2015!