We woke way before our wake up call (doesn't that always happen?). So we were ready to go and on schedule. Our car (yes, the Benz again) took us to the airport. With no traffic we were there super early. Got tickets, something to eat and waited. And waited. And waited. Well, right before boarding I went up to check on seat assignments.
The young lady said (in very limited English) that there was ONCE AGAIN something wrong with Teagan's ticket. She let us know someone was coming. She could not explain what was wrong. Needless to say with the limited sleep we had Howard and I got a bit angry. Once someone came the plane was ten minutes from leaving. He did not speak english either but the girl on phone did. They said Teagan's ticket was not paid for, it was. I already made the long story too long but basically, we threw American dollars down on the counter, told them to deal with it, and made them put us on plane. Gosh I was so made. This was the second time it happened with her tickets.
The plane was super empty so we took a row to ourselves and that helped with Teagan and her squirminess. She also ate most of our inflight breakfast. The attendants were fabulous. A quick trip in getting bags, and off to international terminal in Shanghai. We had to wait to check in and while we were waiting we A) had a snack. B) realized the bananas we packed to eat got entirely smashed in the bag and was a huge clean up C) saw Amy, Tom and kids also waiting for their flight.
We hung with them one last time then off for our flight. By now it was twelve hours up and one flight down. There was a collective uneasiness at the gate of who was going to end up next to us. I could see the other passengers eyeballing the kid. We had paid for bulkhead so not only did the guy have to sit next to us, he paid to do it. Teagan did ok. The bulkhead helped a lot. What didn't help was the attendants being a bit yucky and the inflight on demand system being broken. Oh well, the flight was under fourteen hours so I guess it could have been worse.
We got through immigration very quickly. Teagan was a trouper as she had not gotten much sleep and it was her 6:00 a.m. Our friend James picked us up at the airport and there was not traffic so we were home quick! My mom had just come in a bit before and greater us. So did our next door neighbors. It was such a nice welcome. We hung out a bit and then off to bed for what I could only imagine would be interesting. Bennett is expected to be brought home early by my sister Manon and her boys. Hope some sleep is had.
One last bite of moon cake before leaving China.
Yep, in the luggage carrier. Saved my arms and she was happy as a clam.
Teagan in the suitcase helping to unpack.
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