I am in the midst of another day of parental anxiousness. D3 is in the final leg of her long awaited trip to China. Problem is, she is flying there on a Chinese airline. Arggg, like I want my kid taking part in the miracle of human flight, sitting in a chair....in the SKY, on a plane maintained by Chinese workers. Scaring the bat crap out of me right now. I know the long flight has landed safely but I can't track the shorter, 2 hour, hop from Beijing to Shanghai which should be taking off in just a few min. now. I will be ever so glad to get about 4 hours from now without any terrifying news. At least the first plane was a Boeing 747, so I know it was built here. Have no idea what the next plane is, and either way they are maintained by Chinese Air - and I sure don't trust the quality of their work!
Update: I assume they are safely at their hotel now, sleeping off a 36 hour day. The orchestra has a designated blogger so hopefully I'll be getting updates every couple days. As soon as she wakes up, anyway.
Update #2: Got an email from D3. This is the email in its entirety:
"all in china now :)
Internet cafe is huge and super cheap"
No need to waste words or anything.....
Update: I assume they are safely at their hotel now, sleeping off a 36 hour day. The orchestra has a designated blogger so hopefully I'll be getting updates every couple days. As soon as she wakes up, anyway.
Update #2: Got an email from D3. This is the email in its entirety:
"all in china now :)
Internet cafe is huge and super cheap"
No need to waste words or anything.....
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"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Could be a lot worse. My sister and her husband adopted a little girl from Russia years ago and had to fly clear across the country (loooooong way) on a Russian airline (Aeroflot) on a Russian made plane. Now that made for some great family stories.
my husband's father once had to take an aeroflot flight, that one is fraught with stories as well - i believe it was a prop plane.
I'm saying a prayer that all is well and that you are able to follow the blog regularly. Does D3 have a cell phone with GPS? With a camera? You know, so she can send you photos and let you know she's okay? (Expensive, but worth the peace of mind)
Wow. I hope you hear something today. I dread when mine get older.
no phone for over there, but she does have a camera and access to internet cafes so i expect to hear from her at least a bit.
once the official blogger starts posting something i'll link to that so you can watch too if you are interested.
Love her email. Hopefully there was more to it!
nope, that was the whole thing