Thailand - the adventure begins

I'm going to try to post this EPIC journey as it happens. No pictures yet, and I'll tell you why in a minute. It is EPIC my friends.

We were scheduled to head out of Xiamen at 12:10. We were at the airport in plenty of time, but our flight was about 20 minutes late out of the gate. While we were waiting I felt two cold sores on my upper lip start to form. Thankfully I had the abreva with  me. We knew it would be tight in Hong Kong and when we got off our plane there was a gal there waiting with our names on a paper and she ran/escorted us to our next flight, only to find out that it was delayed about 45 minutes.

This was all because we decided to travel this area during TYPHOON season. That's right. A typhoon had just left Hong Kong swimming and was delaying flights all over Asia. In order for Hong Kong to catch up they were boarding flights out on the tarmac as well as at gates. So we were handed glorified plastic bags to protect us from the rain that was not then falling. We got on buses and headed out onto the tarmac and up the stairs onto the plane. We were 3 feet from the door when a sheet of rain (we were not wearing the plastic bags) hit us and soaked our right sides and we pushed into the plane. Lovely. It was okay though, we weren't cold.

When Daniel got to our seats there were people sitting in them. Once they moved we had time to pay attention to who our seat mate was. She was the funniest ornery old Chinese woman.She tried to get up to go the bathroom while we were taxiing and then again a few minutes after take off and then she went back to her seat (window mind you, tripping over us each time) grumbling in Chinese and then the group of about 8 that she was with started laughing. I'm pretty sure she was swearing.

Then when it was time for the food they ask us chicken with rice or pork with noodles. She said chicken and I got pork and when she saw mine she said "ick." It was awesome.

Then her daughter came and took pictures of her asleep and awake. When we got up to leave we were waiting to get our of our row and she burped behind me. It was awesome. I always love some entertainment on my flights.

When we landed we got through customs just fine and went to the luggage  carousel. No big pink suitcase (mine). Nor any others. So we filled out the form and gave them the information they needed and they said the would send it to our hotel when it came. So we waited up till 11. Nothing. Then this morning we called and asked the front desk. Nothing. We went to breakfast and then gave all the information again to the front desk so they could track it down for us. They called and it still in Hong Kong amidst hundreds of bags that did not go with their owners. Are you jealous yet?

Here are the things that we needed:

Daniel's medication
Daniel's CPAP machine
my cold sore medication
Daniel's exzema cream
BOTH my cameras. Yes this trip so far had only iphone photos.
clean clothes
combs
CLEAN UNDERWEAR!Yes.

So Daniel and I went with his mom to a local laundry mini-everything store and got ourselves some clothes. I got a spaghetti strap dress, a swimsuit (replacement underwear) and a shirt to wear. Daniel got some white linen pants, a white linen shirt and some turquoise swim trunks. Our garments are now hanging to dry on the clothes line the shower after being washed. I hope we get our luggage tonight. But ti's possible it won't be here to till tomorrow. This is a trial, my friends. I real trial. But we are going to do our best and enjoy where we are and hopefully be able to laugh at this story while it's happening as well as in the future.

Check back tomorrow for updates!