China Bound

Life is full of adventure! I had to be at the airport at 5:30 AM Monday for the trip to Hong Kong. I flew from OKC to Chicago. The flight from Chicago is a direct flight to Hong Kong via a route North over Alaska and then over Japan and down along the China coast to HK. It's about a 15 hour trip and we were schedule to land in HK at 4:45 PM on Tuesday. As we were passing by Beijing we lost an engine on the Boeing 747 and had to make an unscheduled landing at the Beijing airport. I want to think that this was more of an inconvenience than a real disastrous situation. The pilot said that the landing was a precautionary move. At any rate I didn't get to bed until 2:00 AM Wednesday morning.

Wednesday seems a blur. When we are in HK we stay with some old friends, the Morrison family. They were our host family on our first trip to HK several years ago. Many of you remember Andy and Katherine Morrison. Andy worked on the NC staff as an intern for about a year and a half. I had lunch with Andy's dad, Ken, and then Wednesday afternoon work on getting ready for the Men's Walk to Emmaus. Wednesday evening we had a junk (boat) trip through the HK harbor to Lamma Island for a seafood dinner with the Men's Emmaus team. Thursday we started the walk.