How to travel with high school students

• Make them wake up insanely early, like 3 am.
• Make sure they all have boarding passes--wouldn't be good to get to Denver without a boarding pass to Portland!
• Stay with their luggage on the layover so they can get breakfast and go to the bathroom
• Make sure they tip the shuttle driver from the airport to the hotel
• Make sure they eat lunch, instead of just a granola bar
• Keep them moving on the streets, especially when homeless people or shady people are lingering in doorways and the small of marijuana reeks in the air
• Help them get discounts into the zoo
• Watch as they get disgusted as polar bears, rhinos, and the elephants all poop and pee right in front of us
• Drag them all over the light rails and streetcars, making sure they always know what stop to get off on
• Patiently wait as they want to shop at the same stores they have back home, and patiently wait as they buy the underwear they forgot to pack
• Take them to a very nice dinner to relax, and enjoy their company
• Shhh them a million times because they are the LOUDEST group you've ever traveled with
• By the time you get back to the hotel, make sure they are so dead tired they wouldn't even think of doing anything bad
• Doublecheck 900 times what time they are to be up in the morning
• Lock your door, go to sleep and start all over again