So it begins..

At one o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday January fifth 2013 Leah and I embarked on our journey. The plane trip was rather entertaining. Whilst the rest of the world would be eating their bags of peanuts on the way to their destinations we would be getting moist towels. (sorry Danielle, it was unavoidable) Needless to say we were impressed enough to take pics. After an 11 hour plane ride you can imagine how exhausted we were when we landed in China to reach our connecting flight. Our 4 hour layover felt more like 30 min. It was quite an experience. It started with us walking in the wrong direction up to the info counter only to get chased down by a Chinese woman on a Segway that had a face that said 'its business time'. Thus after she spoke in Chinese and motioned us to the other side of the airport, we moved. (You don't mess with people on segways) Us along with other Americans on our flight were confused to say the least. We had to check in at the airport, get our passports stamped, (although we wouldn't be staying there..) go through airport security. At some point we all thought they lost our bags and it felt like we were on the amazing race figuring everything out without any help from airport personnel. But we made it!

Bear in mind the fact that there is a 15 hour time difference which means I've pulled all kinda of all-nighters on this ride. And so you can only imagine the humor I found in this last pic. Do they want me to rinse dishes off in the bathroom or....?