March 8, 2012, 2 pm- Met at Greensboro International Airport for our Delta flight 3093 to Beijing, connecting through Detroit. We had not been to the Greensboro airport since the renovation, so we were very impressed. The Greensboro airport is new and clean and very accessible. Even though it was a bit out of our way to travel through Greensboro, the airport itself is much less of a hassle than the Charlotte airport. We also stopped through Salisbury to drop off our dog, George, at my parents house- Camp Wellie. They cancelled their trip to Edisto Beach so they could keep George while we were in China. Since we don't have kids, they treat George like a grandchild. He will be very spoiled while we are gone. It is so nice not to have to worry about him while we are travelling.
Met Brittany's mom and husband who waited with her until we went through security. Brittany's mom was worried about her allergies with all the pollution in China. She told us she had asked Brittany to get a Z-Pack before she left. Brittany was obviously annoyed with her mom at this point. Lex and I promised to take care of Brittany and make sure she had plenty of benedryl if she needed it.
Security was not bad and were on the plane for Detriot on time. Our adventure was about to begin!
Plane to Detroit was TINY! I had to check one of my carry-ons at the gate as it didn't fit in the overhead compartment.
Landed in Detroit and had quick tranfer to plane to Beijjing. Noticed a lot of Asian travellers at the Detroit airport. The flight now flies up and over the North Pole to Asia so I suspected Detroit is the main hub for Asian travel for Delta. Got to our gate pretty easily and had a little extra time, so we went to a Japanese restaurant across from the get for a quick sushi role. Ended up sitting beside a couple who were both Law professors as UofM. We told them we were taking a trip to China with ASU, and they remembered ASU without me having to explain where the school was. He said, "that game will go down in infamy!" They told us our trip sounded like a great one and wished us luck.
Got on flight to Beijjing which took off on time, 8 pm, headed for Beijjing.
I watched several movies, "My week with Maryln," and "The Decendants." Got several nice sized naps. Notices a lot of Chinese people on our flight. The announcements were made in both English and Chinese. Once I tried out my Chinese by ordering some "Sway (water)" when the attendent came around. He looked at me like he didn't recognize what I said before he realized I was attempting Chinese rather than English. I found this happened a lot in China too. I could say the word correctly, but I was not expected to speak in Chinese, so was misunderstood. Lex saw the Northern Lights out the window and woke me up once to see. Several times I looked out the winder and saw nothing but snowy-white below us.
We had two meals on the plane. Food was very good.
After 13 hours on the plane, we landed in Beijjing! Walk through airport is a blurr since I was tired. We lost all of Friday and arrived at 11 pm Friday night after leaving Detroit on Thursday at 8 pm. Adjusted our clocks forward 13 hours.
Found Wendy, our Beijjing tourguide and the bus to take us to SunWorld Hotel. Got checked in and straight to bed in a blurr. We made it!
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