Fourteen hour flights are not fun, FYI. Especially when they serve you food what gives you gas... Anyway, Jeff and I arrived safely in Hong Kong about an hourish ago. We're chilling at the airport for our layover--it's really hot and humid in Hong Kong, and we'll be coming back in January. I think the other teachers think we're crazy...but they wouldn't be wrong about that, so no worries!

I should've taken a picture of our plane. It was huge! The first class and business class had a whole deck to themselves. We were packed in to three rows with three seats by the window, four in the middle, and three by the other window. The legroom was nice, but after the first few hours, you really just want to sleep and it's hard to do so in a mostly sitting-up position (unless you're Mom). They reclined fairly well. Cathay Pacific, the airline, provided pillows and blankets and headphones. And free movies! Ones that haven't even left the theater in America. We had the option of watching Kung Fu Panda and Iron Man among others. For free. Which was very nice. The games didn't work, though, which was a bummer. It gets boring to just sit and watch something for hours on end.

The food tasted really good going down, but the gas wasn't quite as nice. I had chicken and rice. The vegetables in it were a bit nasty, but the chicken was good. They gave us shrimp, too! Jeff was very kind and gave me his shrimp and I gave him the tomatoes that came with them. Then we tried to sleep, which is nearly impossible to do for long. Once you get asleep, a baby cries or the plane hits rough air or something and you wake up drowsy and confused. Neither of us are looking forward to going back to the US because it means another long plane ride... But not much can be done. I had the window seat and Jeff was next to me, so we were basically boxed in for the entire ride...

Anyway, the mountains here are really pretty. Wish we had some in Utah like 'em. It's technically tomorrow here, which is weird... The airport is shiny on the inside. And Jeff and I are going to walk around for a bit. Just wanted to post this in case I can't find an outlet that works later.