Wednesday, 10/21 we finally finally where on our last day in GZ and checked out of the Hotel to wait for our shuttle to the train for HK which was to leave at 6 PM. We met with another agency family who was also leaving to come home thru HK and our guide who was bringing us Shawn’s passport and the brown envelope.



Unfortunately just as we where to go thru gate check to get on the train we got a very frantic call from our guide who just attempted to drop of another family at the airport. Apparently she had the passports mixed up and here we where standing to check in for the train with the wrong passport and the scary thing was that even after we asked for the child passport back and the guide over the phone explained what happened the security check did not believe us until they pulled Shawn aside and he confirmed that indeed his name was not that of the child in the passport. I can not believe they would have actually let us pass with the wrong passport. Anybody that recently traveled and knows the ridiculous amount of passport and security checks getting to China via HK and back to the states knows that we could have been in some serious trouble if not caught in time!!

The train ride went well and was a first for both Shawn and Dad, about 2 hours long went by really fast and Shawn did actually sleep a bit on the train.

So basically we did not get to the Hotel in HK unit 1 AM in the morning one because now we missed our train and we had to take the next on 2 hours later but also because we where not told that the train stop we where on was NOT going all the way to the airport, which was where our hotel was. Just another one of those oops and oh sorry we forgot to mention it that we encountered. Thank the lord for shuttle buses from the train to the airport so after paying for another set of tickets we where finally on our way to the Hotel.




Next morning at 6 AM we had to get up and get ready to checkout and in at that airport to catch our flight to Shanghai. As it goes our plane was 2 hours delayed and by the time we arrived in Shanghai where we had to get our luggage and check back in we barely barely caught our international flight. The flight home went fairly smooth other then that none of us really did sleep. Shawn was extremely restless and even fell of the seat once and Dad got a little sleep. Other then that we watched movies for the most part and I said a silent prayer when we finally touched down in Chicago and where able to get our luggage and of to the car we went!! Shawn did much better then expected having to be buckled into the booster knowing how he did not like the seat-belt on the airplane and then went to sleep.

And after I got over the shock of a parking charge on the way out caused by DH mishap and the traffic on the way to the airport 2 weeks ago we where finally on our last stretch to HOME SWEET HOME!!

Blessings Angie