Day 1

First day of travel but it turns out to be 2 days with no sleep. 13 hour plane ride to China, not too bad. When we arrive at the airport we meet our guide and take the subway (3 transfers) to get to the bullet train station. On the first stop with all of our suitcases we all do not make it on the train leaving Cheryl behind. The guide and I rode to the next stop, got off the subway, and returned to Cheryl only to try again. She is just standing against the wall waiting for us all casual eating a sucker like "No big deal". The rest of the transfers went well and we were at the train station about an hour and a half later. We took the bullet train to Hefei arriving about 3 hours later. I have such a hard time sleeping when I travel but by now I am off and on. When we arrive at the Hefei train station our guide takes us to the Holiday Inn. It is about an hour drive by taxi. It is a nice hotel but all we want is to shower and sleep.

Recap on time: 13 hour plane ride, 1 1/2 hour subway, 2 hour wait for bullet train, 3 hour train ride, 1 hour ride from train to hotel = 19 1/2 hours of travel to get from home to our hotel. This is bad enough but we have also travel forward in time at some point in all of this so our days and nights are all mixed up.

2 days until we take custody of Min!