Travel day! We are currently in the Hong Kong airport for a 6 hour layover and it’s a great airport to be stuck in! It’s so clean and has computer & tablet stations where Mason is making friends and playing games and a cute kids TV area with short chairs and cartoons playing for kids. The city looks amazing with mountains in the background and we saw the ocean as we were landing. I’d love to come someday and actually see the city!
The first plane ride was from Guangzhou to Hong Kong. It was just a 50 minute flight. We could have taken a 4 hr bus instead. Now that we know that Suzie gets carsick, I am so thankful that our travel agent opted for the flight!
Our next flight is 13 hrs to LAX, then to Denver! It's an overnight flight so we were hoping to catch some sleep. Addie fell asleep first, after her and Mason watched Men In Black 3. Mason stayed up for quite awhile watching movies but eventually fell into a heavy sleep. Kassie and Suzie both fell asleep around a few hours in. We had a nice seating arrangement as we had a section of three seats (window - aisle; Suzie, Kassie, BMer) and then a 2-seat section right behind us for Addie and Mason. No strangers next to us.
Brian stayed up watching The Godfather when Suzie sat up and slipped off her seat into the pitch darkness. We scrambled to get her back into her seat in the dark, she's so flexible and tiny that I think she slipped through the belt. Either way I (Brian) couldn't sleep unless one of us were awake. I cranked out a few more movies on the in-flight TV, Justice League, The Florida Project and some others.
Unlike the flight to China where we flew up over Alaska and down over Asia, the flight back from Hong Kong to LAX is a little more south and over the ocean for most of the trip. This meant a little more turbulence which made us a little uneasy. I stopped eating after the first meal and still got a little nauseous near the end. Thankfully we all made it safe and sound, back on US soil!
Going through the Port was pretty easy, the immigration folks were great and fast-tracked us since we had a stroller. Suzie was now an official American citizen and we were one flight away from being home. Our flight to Denver was boarding when halfway through something broke and they unloaded the plane. We were delayed about an hour but eventually got on the plane and headed home.
Despite getting into Denver at midnight, our buddies were there to pick us up and get us home, where even more friends were still up and waiting for us. It was amazing, really awesome. We couldn't wait to give Suzie the tour of her new home and stayed up until 3a showing her everything. Even after the long day, Addie got up at 7a to go play her soccer game where she scored her first goal of the season!
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