Friday, August 4, 2006
DAYTON? DAYTON?
Sounds familiar…

Well, we are still in Hong Kong. Our flight was supposed to leave at 3pm today, but now it is 3:10pm and we are still sitting in the Red Carpet Clubroom, waiting on a plane. Supposedly one has arrived and is being readied for our flight….we’ll see.

The novelty of the Red Carpet club is wearing a little thin as we are tiring of the same old snack menu after our seven hour stint in here. We can hear the passengers below us in the gate area who are waiting on their Cathay Pacific flight. It is pretty entertaining to watch them and listen to them. They have created a semi-riot situation with a large, angry crowd completely surrounding one poor little man in a tie who is trying to calm them down. He looks very nervous and sweaty. The crowd is yelling and cheering every so often when one of them makes a particularly good remark. John thinks it is Chinese sarcasm being applauded, but since we don’t speak Cantonese, we are pretty much in the dark. But some gestures and body language are universal! :)

Gracie has done very well. She is happy as long as she has some room to roam and a kitkat clenched in her fist. She tried to fall asleep again on the tile, but John keeps waking her up, hoping that she will sleep on the plane instead. Our diaper supply is running low and we are still wearing our clothes from yesterday (pee-you!) so we hope that we will make it out today or else NO ONE will want to be sitting in our section of the plane. I am determined that neither sleet nor snow nor typhoon will keep me from shopping today should we stay another night, so we are anxiously watching the boarding information…. John in hopes of saving some money and Lisa in hopes of spending some. As soon as we get home, we will post.