My flight back home

My Trip back home was pretty standard, Harbin to Beijing in a mid sized aircraft and from there i got on another huge plane and flew from Beijing to Chicago. One thing i wasn't counting on was the "wonderful" lady that was at the ticketing desk in Beijing. I had a small backpack and a small roller board bag. The backpack is supposed to be my small personal item which i have ALWAYS carried on every trip i have gone on, and the roller board was small enough to fit in the overhead bin. She wouldn't let me have both, she told me i could have a purse but no backpack because it was too big. As everyone might know I'm not one to carry around a purse, and most purses are the size of my backpack. So i argued that with her, but she decided to be a hag about it. So i ended up dumping half my stuff i needed into my roller board that was already stuffed with breakables and shoving my backpack into my already overfilled luggage.

On the plane to Chicago we had 3 meals and 6 movies were playing on a loop. So i watched a few movies and slept a little. I sat next to a couple of the USA Men's Hockey team and we chatted for a bit and shared stories. Man that was a long flight!

Once i got to Chicago i had a few hours to burn so i had my first real American food... Chili's! I had a chicken ranch sandwich with buffalo sauce & french fries! It was so good! Kate was not able to join me because she jumped on a flight to NY since her flight to Philly was canceled. My flight was supposed to take off around 8pm, the plane was there but the crew was really late coming from a different city. I finally was airborne at 10:30pm and didn't get to my house until midnight. If i wanted to i could have rented a car from Chicago and driven home before my plane had even arrived at the gate in Chicago.
Oh well, I'm home safe and i get to sleep in my own bed! Yea!
Now i just have to deal with getting back onto Central Time.