Thursday arriving in Zhanjiang

Spent most of the day traveling today. Warren, Shanae and Lynea left Fuzhou to travel to Guangzhou then Zhanjiang. Lora, Cami,and I were leaving Nanchang to travel to Guangzhou then Zhanjiang also. Our flight was delayed leaving Nanchang. When we finally boarded we had to sit on the tarmac another hour so we left about 2 hours late. When we arrived we only had 15 minutes to get clear to the other side of the airport. We asked directions and were told to jump on a little cart and they speeded us through the airport to the right terminal. When we got there we had to go up an escalator which connected to a hallway with an escalator we had to go down to finally find Warren and the other girls. We were relieved we made it and then found this next flight was delayed too! We have had lots of delayed flights. . . not sure if this is typical for China or because it is the rainy season. We sat an hour in the airport then boarded and sat again about an hour. Really interesting to look out and see a line of about 8 aircraft all lined up waiting for permission to leave. We were in the middle of that line. Funny in the airport waiting to get on, several Chinese people lined up to board so we lined up as well. Then they went and sat in our chairs. The airport was very crowded because of the delays so we joked with the other Americans that they played a trick on us to get our chairs. . . maybe!

Lora speeding through the airport to catch next flight

Arrived in Zhanjiang finally about 7:30 at night. As we arrived our guide was a 22-year-old college student majoring in English studies. He was very nice and quite handsome and was holding a sign with Lora's name in English and Chinese. We said this is Lora, and he said kind of under his breath, "Oh, pretty girl." So this started Lora's city visit off very well! Our guides (one other family also coming to this town)took us immediately to dinner as we were so late - then to hotel to check in. Hotel is very beautiful 5-star hotel with water fall and huge coy pond. . . very pretty with large rooms! So glad after long day traveling to be here.

Cami asleep waiting for delayed flight