CHINA - day 6 Xi'an to Shanghai to Manila

Home today! yea! The rest of the group was headed on to a town called Guiling (I think), but we got to go home today. Even without Laura, I think we would have been very tired. And some of the group even went to Shanghai for a tour before we met them in Beijing!

We didnt' have to leave too early, which was a relief. I think we got up at 7:30 or something. It was a better night for sleeping than last night. Jim thought it was funny that Laura was wearing her Canada shirt in China:

We spent some time in the airport looking for souvenirs. The first flight went fine. Laura had her own seat. The second flight was much more rough because she didn't have her own seat and wouldn't eat much. She was sick of all the food I had brought and didn't like anything we could find. In fact, we knew she needed to eat something, so (being the first rate parents that we are), we fed her the only thing in the airport we could find that we knew she'd eat - peanut M&MS. She loved them and at least she got some protein from the peanut. And its MILK chocolate, right?

We had to re-check in at Shanghai since we were going on a different airline. It was a big challenge to find Philipine Airlines since there are about 100 different airlines at this airport. Turns out that the tour company had sent someone to meet us there to help us transfer, but we didn't know that, so we walked right by her in baggage claim. She ended up tracking us down after we were already checking in for the next flight. too bad. She was really nice! We found some food and hung out waiting for our next flight. It was pretty cool to see all the locations for flights at the gates near us:

Got home about 9, I think. Bed and sleep! Great trip!