An Interesting 24 Hours

The past 24 hours have been very interesting to say the least. We were suppose to leave Inner Mongolia last night around 5pm to go back to BJ. We had to check out of our hotel at 2:30 so we headed on over to the airport. As we are sitting at our gate, they started delaying flights. They kept saying it was due to weather conditions, but the weather at our airport looked okay so we didn't know if they meant at the airport the flights were coming from. A little before 5, they announce that our flight would be delayed as well. On a side note, public heating is turned off in China on April 15 despite the weather outside, so we are freezing in this airport and that wasn't making things better! A little after 6, another flight to BJ actually starts boarding (before this time there hadn't been a single flight in or out). We were going to try to get on the flight, but knew that was too much out of the box to make happen. Jacob went to talk to someone and had to call a friend to translate and she was told that they didn't know if our flight was going to make it that night. So, we left the boarding area, managed to get our tickets changed, got new boarding passes, found our luggage and got our luggage retagged (and all of these things weren't done at the same counter!!) We get back up to the boarding area to hear that our original flight would be arriving in 30 minutes! At that point it wasn't worth changing our tickets again, but our original flight ended up leaving 30 minutes before ours did! But we finally made it to our hotel a little after 10pm, and luckily a nearby restaurant was still open for dinner!

Today, we were at fellowship. This fellowship is HUGE and has people from almost any country you could imagine! Jacob went to go talk to one of our friends to set up a time to work on his computer AGAIN and a guy stopped him. We have practically been living in our jackets and Jacob had on his FSU pullover. Come to find out, Jacob's new friend the older brother of Drew Weatherford, the quarterback for FSU! What a small world!

Periodically, Chinese English speakers like to stop us to practice their English. Today we were in a book store and two students stopped us wanting to help us pick out post cards. At the end of our conversation, the girl asked if I was pregnant. She was the first stranger to ask, so I guess I'm actually looking pregnant these days!!