Farthest from home...so far

       I am now the furthest I've ever been from home and I am only going further! The flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong was super long! We were following the dark (or is it the morning?), which was an interesting experience. I’d have to say I’m pretty sure it was the longest night of my life. It got dark about the time we reached Portland and didn’t get light until we were almost to Hong Kong. That is like 20 hours of dark, way too many!! We left Vancouver at about 2:45am, which was on time, unlike our Portland to Vancouver flight. I never realized how long 13 hours was until I had to sit on a plane that wouldn’t even let you put the seat back a little, it was not comfortable and because of that I did not get much sleep.

       When we arrived in Hong Kong, we had to go to the Dragon Air desk to get our boarding passes for our flight to Dhaka. At the desk they asked us to see our baggage tickets. The Waids had quite a few extra bags and there was a nice man at the Alaskan Air desk in Spokane that did not charge them extra. Well in Hong Kong they were almost going to have to pay extra, but the teller at the Dragon Air desk was kind as well and let them through with no extra charge. Mr. Waid figured out what they would have had to pay extra and it came to like $1500. After that happened, we got in a circle right there in front of the counter and thanked God for the miracle.

       We have a 12 hour layover, but since we are stopping here on the way back, we don’t see a need to bother with what to do with our carry-ons to explore Hong Kong, so we found a couple tables and put all of our carry-ons there and are rotating who is sitting and watching them.

It is now close enough to our flight we know what gate we leave from so we are in chairs near there and all of us are pretty tired and are probably going to take a nap.