A Miracle Connection to China!

May 18^th

After a few hours of sleep we awakened extra early (God does that for a reason) and we went down to check out. We were scheduled on the 6 am shuttle but because we were early we made it on the 5:45am shuttle (this would be God working). Before we got on the shuttle the kids found these chairs in the lobby????

We arrived at the airport once again confused because of the language barrier but found someone to point us in the right direction. We found the check in counter and explained our situation and asked if there were seats closer to the front so we could get off the plane quicker. As she was checking things, I kept seeing signs that flights were cancelled. I was hoping ours was not. The sweet woman then told me there was an earlier flight leaving in 15 minutes and she could put us on that flight so we would have time to change planes in HK. I was excited but we had not been through customs and security and I know how long that takes. I asked her if we could make that flight and she said they would hold it for us if we hurried and gave us our passes. It took forever to get through customs but there stood a woman on the other side waiting for us she radioed we were coming. We ran and found the gate and got on to find we were in first class!!! What a treat. We had a lovely breakfast on real dishes and just when we were getting comfy it was time to land. (To bad this was our shortest flight). Too bad I didn’t get a picture! 

We landed in our confusing HK airport and finally found the gate after it was finally assigned. We had to take a shuttle to the gate. After sitting there for a while I saw a sign saying our gate was moved. We had to take the shuttle all the way back to the other side of the airport. We found our new gate. We then sat and waited. They moved the gate again to the one next to it. We were finally called for boarding (all at once) we were put on another shuttle bus. After everyone was crammed in it would not start. We all transferred to another shuttle and finally made it out to the plane on the air strip. (Are you getting a picture of why this is not my favorite airport) We got on and took off for the Henan Province. We never would have made the connection on the later flight with all the gate changes. We were so thankful for the miracle early flight!! We landed and found our Guide. We were so glad to be with someone who knew the language. We got to our lovely hotel and rested.

 We are finally in China!! We will see Cargan in less than 36 hours!!