But not quite home.
Left Guangzhou on a 8 AM flight to Beijing. On time.
Left Beijing on a 4 PM flight on Thursday - 13 hour flight and `13 hour time difference means landed in Chicago at 4PM on the day - Thursday.
No glitches anywhere on the trip until we try to get from Chicago to KC.
10 flights with more than 300 people each got to customs / immgration at the same time - a delay in lines in customs means we missed our 6 pm flight to KC.
Carolyn got us re-booked on a 8:10 (her and A, J & E) and 9:54 (me and MeiLi). Their flight was delayed for no crew - then when it got close we got us moved to their flight. Found the crew about 11:30 - then lightning delayed boarding, then lighting delayed take off - at 2 AM they let us off the plane, we rebooked for today and took a room at the hilton. Our next attempt is 1:15. Allie is in the shower - everyone else is still asleep. I woke up feeling very much refreshed - went out for food and found a Mickey D's in terminal 5.
Home soon - can read the signs, drink the water, and understand what others are saying. Ah the little things.
D
4 comments:
Wow, I'm having flashbacks. I hope MeiLi is handling the delay better than J did. Love and grace to you all.
And toilets that can be sat on! Welcome HOME!
Doug, Carolyn and Girls:
Welcome back to the States. A prayer answered. Sorry to hear about the delays, but know that you'll be back in KC soon. Love to all -- Bob
How I remember that--getting through immigration at LAX, and walking into an area where all the signs were in English, the people were speaking English (at least the ones tell us what to do were!)...and taking a deep breath and realizing we were HOME even if we weren't to Kansas City yet...
See you soon,
Kathi
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