At some point it became May 18, my super awesome 33rd birthday. I really struggle sleeping on a plane although I did keep dozing off. After finishing the first movie, L had dozed off, and I tried to watch “The Mechanic.” I made it through the first part of the movie, but fell asleep and woke up after it was over. I dozed on and off and around 4:00 in the morning, we got served breakfast. A ham and cheese sandwich and a biscotti.
With about 4 hours to go I really felt like I needed to get
up and move around a bit. I began chatting with one of the flight attendants
who was just fascinated by our trip and all the traveling that we do for
running. Time flew by when I was talking
with her, and before I knew it about 30 minutes had gone by. I started another
movie “No Strings Attached” and made it most of the way through, but fell
asleep again. I had been hoping that the movie would keep me pretty much
occupied until we would be getting ready to land, but when I woke up we still
had a few hours to go.
I started an episode of Hawaii 5-0 and fell asleep during
that too. Woke up to have yet another meal being served – this time it was
pizza and fruit. With about an hour to go, watched another show “Mike and
Molly” or something, and then we were getting ready to land.
Not exactly my most exciting or memorable birthday. We
landed earlier than scheduled, about 10:45 (vs the 11:30 we were scheduled
for). It took a while to get off the plane since we were in the very back, and
then had to go through customs and find our bags. Luckily everything went fine.
I exchanged some money, and actually managed to find the person who was to take
us to our hotel. By now it is almost midnight. We had been told that if there
was no transfer and we had to pay our own way that it would be about $20 by
Taxi. The drive was about 45 minutes, so not sure how accurate that rate was.
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| Beijing Airport |
Arrived at our hotel after 1:15 am, and it seemed pretty
classy! Checking in took a while because they have to make a copy of your
passport and Visa. Get to our room, make sure our stuff is ready for the
morning, but have to keep our bags packed since we will be checking out first
thing in the morning. Take a quick shower and head to bed.
Wow - what a hotel room. I've never seen one with such fancy furniture!
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