Feb.19-20

Tuesday/Wednesday:

Just arrived in Hong Kong, was 2:20 Thursday morning when we started putting this together, (12:20 in the afternoon back home, CST).  We left for the airport at 5:15 am on Tuesday and flew to Chicago with not problems.  Addison was given her wings at check in, and was invited to the flight deck by the pilot for a look around.

In Chicago we were supposed to have a 3.5 hour layover, but that’s not how it worked.  We knew in Minneapolis that there was going to be an hour delay because of mechanical issues.  We arrived at our gate and people watched, and meet a group of clowns going to the World Clown Convention in Singapore.  The clown with the orange hair made an Ariel out of balloons for Addison.  I think Addison was a little excited when the clown gave it to her. 

We boarded the plane at 1:45 and waited for the mechanical papers to be processed.  The first officer got on the intercom and announced that because of this delay the flight crew went illegal…basically if they would have crewed our flight they would have had too many hours in the air.  They asked all of us to get off the plane with all of our items to wait for the new crew.  The new departure time was set for 5:45, so we boarded the plane at five.  We were all on the plane, and the new first office got on the intercom, and announced the flight attendant crew was now illegal.  We were able to stay on the plane while the new flight attendant crew was assembled.   We finally pushed back from the gate at 6:45 and arrived in Hong Kong at 11:45.  Our first stop after getting off the plane was to the restrooms.  Check out the picture below…loved the bathroom stalls in HK!

We made in through customs in about an hour, and were ready to go to our hotel for the night!  It was seriously 1:01am when we went to the hotel shuttle desk, the nice man behind the counter said “oh, so sorry, the last shuttle went out at 1:00…take this card to the blue taxi and go that way”.  We went downstairs to the blue taxi line, handed the card to the drive and away we went to the hotel.

Our hotel is beautiful, and right on the water.  We can’t wait to see what it looks like when it's light outside.

Our day was long and full of adventure!  Addison did an amazing job traveling today, and really was a trooper.  The five of us (Addison's Uncle Jay and Aunt Sheila came along to chase Addison!) really seem to be great travel partners…we can’t wait until there is the sixth member to our travel party.  We are one day closer to seeing our sweet Tovin’s face.

Tomorrow we are off to see the Big Buddha and visit a local fishing village.   It’s really late and Addison is eating Teddy Grahams…

Oh…we’re getting up in 4 hours!

Good Night!