Today is the day

We are safe and happy in Nanning. Our hotel is beautiful! We are very excited to meet Molly in 7 hours, not that I am counting!

Our travel has been interesting. The flight were long and mostly uneventful. Friends we were hoping to meet up with in Chicago and fly the long flight to Hong Kong with almost missed their flight due to storms in Chicago and the airport closing in the morning. They ended up making it (with much production) but their luggage didn't. My friend, Stacy cried at the gate as the plane was sitting there with the doors closed. They ended up opening the doors for them and a few others. Their luggage finally arrived in Hong Kong two days later!

We almost didn't make it from Hong Kong to Guangzhou Friday night. Due to the typhoon the airport had tons of delays and cancellations. So we had to get in a long line for our boarding pass. We made friends with two American guys in their twenties who teach English in China. Their flight was delayed several hours so they were in no huge rush and let us get in front of them. The line just didn't move, we didn't know what was happenging but it looked like chaos! We stood still and kept grabbing people from the airline begging for help as our flight departure time was closing in. And, no luck! Finally we got to the counter after an hour of waiting and only 5 people or so in front of us. We ran like heck to our gate. It was a long way, up and down escalators, through security, and then a very long way to the gate in a huge terminal of hundreds of gates. And they are boarding the plane. We made it. Lots of prayers from Don and I on the run! Then we sat on the plane at the gate for an hour waiting for the people on the Cathay Pacific San Fransciso flight. Wish someone had mentioned this to us in our panic.

Guangzhou was nice, our hotel great. The train ride to Nanning was a bit rough. But we saw the beautiful countryside and the primitive farming they still do here.

More later! Need to get breakfast before we miss it again!