Our flight didn’t leave Beijing until 4:20 PM so we were able to sleep in a little and take our time packing. We went down for breakfast around 8:30 AM and were able to say goodbye to some of the folks leaving for Hong Kong. Around lunchtime we walked over to the Hard Rock café and had a bit of lunch. We took two taxis to the airport at 1:30 PM and began the long journey home. Connections went smoothly and we got into Chicago at 4:30 PM. Interesting how the flight was 12 hours long but it was still the same time when we got to Chicago. Everyone went through customs smoothly, then we had a four hour wait until our Pittsburgh flight. We got into Pittsburgh around 12:00 AM, picked up the car, dropped mom and dad off and arrived home at 2:15 AM.
We spent the weekend doing laundry, going through the mail and trying to catch up on our sleep. I woke up Saturday morning and thought it is really strange that they have the same picture on the wall as I do at home. Not only that, they have the same nightstand lamp! It took me several minutes to realize that I wasn’t in China anymore!
The trip was very nice. We enjoyed ourselves and met some really interesting people. It was a good group and everyone got along with each other. We would do another trip like this again in the future.
You can view our pictures at: http://web.mac.com/wcochenour_efsd/iWeb
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