Sitting in An Airport

"We're Sitting In An Airport, Don't Know When
We'll Take Off Again....." Sing it with me...

We left X today on a sunny cool morning and
arrived at the airport at 8am. After a wild
check-in and paying for extra luggage-and receiving
 prayer shawls for good luck and good fortune (!)
 from one of our students-we waited for our plane.
 Then waited. And waited. And waited. Our flight
was cancelled and we saw our dreams of Beijing
slipping away....in a cloud of smoke, since we were
stuck between the toilets and the smoking room. We
closed the door 600 times so we could breathe.

At one point they gave us some tea and then later
a little box of rice, grape tomatoes, and a roll. 
We had missed breakfast and lunch so we were hungry,
 tired, and most of us were out of chinese money so
 we couldn't buy any yak jerky or fake pringles to
 tide us over. Our team played cards, slept on the
plastic chairs, read, sang and passed the time,
unlike the chinese who mobbed the one airline attendant
 with a barrage of screaming and yelling and gesturing
 that did not look encouraging! 

PTL we are on the plane-everyone got a seat, we hope
 our bags follow us, and we will STILL get our hot
shower and Frappucino before the day is out. Thanks
for all the time you have invested in thinking of us
 and encouraging us. Our camp was great and our team
 has grown very close-truly some of the best people
ever thi year. So much love and energy and encouragement!
 I will keep in touch- hoping for an awesome few days
in Beijing then an uneventful trip home next week! Hugs
 from the X- airport-Cindy and the Xteam!