China Day 11 – Last Post from China!

I am so so so ready to be home!  We have enjoyed our time in China, but I am so ready to be home and see my other kids.  We are all packed.  We’ll have one last ichat with the kids and go to bed.  Our bags need to be outside our room at 4:30 am and we need to be downstairs by 5:00 am.  It cannot come soon enough!  Stella is having a little trouble getting to sleep.  She knows the bags are packed and knows what happens next.  I imagine she is a little stressed!  Today the stress means lots of loud silliness.  She is finally winding down so there is hope!  We fly to Shanghi where we have a 6-hour layover.  Then we board the plane for our almost 14 hour flight to Detroit.  There we go through customs and board a plane home!!!  26 short hours of traveling and we will be home!

Parting thoughts for those who will be going down this road in the future.  We took advantage of the Executive Lounge upgrade in both of our hotels.  This was the best decision we made.  The upgrade covered the cost of breakfast in the main dining area as well as dinner in the executive lounge.  The dinner in Shenyang wasn’t fabulous but it was something we didn’t have to pay extra for.  The executive lounge in the China Hotel was awesome!  We didn’t buy any water while we were here as there was an unlimited supply in the executive lounge that we were able to access anytime during the day.  The dinner was delicious and changed daily, sometimes during our time there.  It was definitely worth the extra investment to get the upgrade.  It more than paid for itself.

Zài jiàn from China!