On the way to Katmandu

Travelling is never completely smooth. Getting to Katmandu has proven to be a little of a feat. First our plane was delayed 24 hours. Luckily, we found out the night before so we had an extra day in Xi'an. We had our Chinese guide, George, sort things out... bless him! We were able to get a free room and some meals. I emailed the trekking company, told them of our trouble and hoped for the best.

The airport hotel was interesting to say the least but at least t was a bed/pillow/ and no airport floor.

The next day at the airport we checked our huge backpacks and then only received one ticket to another destination in CHina but not onward to Katmandu. The flight only left us with an hour or so and my panic set in when I thought about trying to recheck our selves and our bags in.

I watltzed up to Customer Service and no one spoke English! I showed our tickets tried to act out "no time" and check big bags. but they weren't getting it. PANIC!! we were alread one day late for our trek which messed us up a little... two days would be catostrophic! I got them to let me use the phone to phonet trusty George who was with another tour group. BLess his heart he talked to them and got back on the phone and said "Meira Don't WOrry!" That's when I started to cry.

He had china southern fax them and said someone would meet us at the gate to get to our next plane.

Once off the plane Chinese men in pink t-shirts/ties grabbed us and drove us to the backside of the plane where the luggage was being unloaded. We were told to find our bage so we jumped the trolly lierally throwing other people's lugage off to get to our backapacks which were jammed at the bottom and in the middle. We were then driven to the terminal checked in and told to RUN through security and to the gate as fast as we could. Luckily we made it!