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The container finally arrived last night in the pooring rain. We got word around 18.00 hours the container would arrive around 19.30. The only problem was the crane driver was going home at 19.00 and would not be back before 13.00 the next day. Jan and Lee raced to the impound area to try and stop the crane driver from going home and unload the container if it arrived. We had a meeting scheduled around 18.30 several people from the crew forgot about the meeting so we started pretty late, after the meeting Mike, Butch and I headed for the impound area to check on the unloading progress, at that time it is pooring rain, lots of lightning and thunderd, a lot of wind. But the crane drive carried on to do his job an unload our container. The container was wigling in the wind. The crane driver Lee and Jan were soaking wet. But the container unloaded. This morning we were happy to find some action at our workarea finally, the container was unloaded by hand before 09.00 and the first bikes were out of the crates soon after that. In the afternoon the guys went riding on the practice track complaining about sand in their mouth, shoes, underpants. They found the track pretty heavy with all the sand. In Holland we got a lot of sand also, Jan spoke to a Dutchman that was on the track, he said the sand was even heavier than in Havelte, this is the hardest track in Holland.
Another day at the work area tomorrow, we will try and impound the bikes on Friday morning so the riders can go and walk tests after impounding, we will go and organize check crew stuff in the next couple of days.