Delayed

Today we left for the airport at 7:30 AM. We checked in and was told that the flight was "on time" - but 30 minutes later than what was stated on the ticket. After going through security, we waited about 2 hours, after which Dad decided to see what was going on. It turned out that the flight was more than 2 1/2 hours late - We only had a 40 minute layover in Detroit so Dad knew something major was wrong. Dad went to the ticket counter to discover that it was impossible to get to our connecting flight, and that all flights to China were overbooked for today.

This means that we will only get one day in Beijing UNLESS we can get a later flight out of Beijing to Guangzhou. The biggest problem so far is that we haven't been able to get a response from our travel agency (Lotus Travel Inc.) to help us reschedule our Beijing activities. Dad has managed to rebook our flights for the same time tomorrow but I know he is nervous that another glitch will occur and that we will be delayed again.


So here I am now, writing this my first update to the blog in Alabama not Beijing as hoped. Hopefully our next post will be from Beijing and we will have been able to make up for this delay.