“All I need is a bit of paper and I can go anywhere”

“That’s sorted then we are all of to England!”

“Wow hang on a minute Tina, guys I might not even make it, its just a possibility that I’ll make it, its not definite or confirmed or written in stone!”

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As the taxis pulled up outside the airport the ladies all climbed out and headed off towards check in. Dana and Alice led as the rest split into their own little groups, Bette and Tina both with a large case and hand luggage went off to try find a trolley, Carmen, Shane and Jenny followed behind. Carmen and Jenny had each packed for longer than the predicted 2 week stay where as Shane looked as if she had just woken up and walked into the airport by mistake.

“I can’t believe all you are taking is a little bag Shane! You know we are going to be there the full time with Dana playing!”

“Oh come on Al I’m not that good!”

Grabbing her round the waist and pulling her in close Alice looked deep into Dana’s eyes before passionately kissing her. Shane rolled her eyes and looked in the direction of the others who didn’t seem to be paying attention to what was going off around them.

”The way I see it is that we are going to be there tons of sponsors will be wanting you to wear their stuff and who am I to take that from them?”

#THIS IS THE LAST CALL FOR FLIGHT BA625 TO HEATHROW ENGLAND PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO GATE 3#

Bette took order in the group as she directed them over to where they needed to be. It was half expected for this to happen as Dana made the decision not to travel with all her ‘groupies’ as they had now become known. It seemed like a good plan at the time to create a more relaxed atmosphere throughout the tournament and so far it was working as Dana ordered another round of beers before they boarded.

As they were boarding the plane each being shown to their first class seats, an air stewardess caught Shane’s eye. Shane looked on confident raising her head to nod in a discrete way of saying hi, the stewardess smiled back as she headed to the back of the plane.