HOME AGAIN!

I’m excited about returning home to all that is familiar (and Karol and our nice warm wood heat). Visited with Joel again this morning and also met up with Carl Hanson (step up from Joel). Off to airport by taxi (58 HK$) and Airport Express train (90 HK$).

Slipped through all the airport hoops (checking luggage, receiving boarding passes, immigration, customs) with no problem. Time for lunch: Tsing Tao beer and Singapore noodles. Pretty good!! Now I’m just waiting. The plane departure time has been delayed 30 minutes, so we hope to leave at 1:05 pm.

Beautiful flowers at the Inchon (Seoul) Airport

 Korean Airlines is THE BEST! Dinner is served with real glasses and metal silverware – and the service is very good. Had bi bim bop (even though they didn’t call it that on the menu. As we neared Korea, the flight attendant asked the person in the row behind, “For safety as we land, would you please pull down your window,” meaning, pull up your shade so that the window is clear. Pulling down/up the window would have been disasterous.

Spent about an hour in the Inchon airport and now we’re flying on a Delta flight to Detroit. 12 hours and 15 minutes……Ow! A long stretch. Economy class is “light” meaning that there were many seats open. I was able to move from a side aisle filled with three of us to the center middle where no one was sitting. I had great visions of stretching out for a nice sleep. But shortly into the flight, the attendant brought over a lady whose TV/computer did not work. So much for stretching out.

Detroit at 5:45 for a two hour wait. Then on to CWA, arriving at 8:45. Home again. Good to see Karol. But, it’s cold!!

Most thankful for a very safe trip!!!!!

Karol had the fire going when I got back. Wow! That was toasty and warm!