Flying
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It began in Raleigh's RDU airport
at around 7:20 AM on Friday. It was a short hop to Chicago, and although I fought not to,
I easily went to sleep during the flight.
At O'hara, I boarded what was probably the biggest air plane I have ever ridden.
Directed to the correct isle, I thought that this wouldn't be that bad, until I moved
beyond the business section and into coach.
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After an hour on the plane, they
turned on the TV screens and asked us to pull the shades down at our windows. On a couple
of occassions, I raised my window shade to see a lot of snow below. At first, I let it pass, assuming that there had been a
storm in the past couple of days, but each time I checked the scene grew whiter. Finally,
I concluded that we were traveling North over Canada and the Arctic to get to Hong Kong.
Go Figure!
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There was a haze in the air when
we landed at Hong Kong's brand new International Air Port -- at 5:00 PM on Saturday.
This was the first airport that I have ever used that
looked to be larger than it needed to. I'm sure that will change.
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First
thing to do in Hong Kong is EatThey
say that eating is Hong Kong's best thing to do. Everything is scheduled around food. This
was one of the aspects of my trip that I was looking foward to and the first thing I did.
My Hosts' families invited me to dinner at their club.
Here are just a few of them. Those less than 4 and older than 80 are not shown in this
picture.
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One of the "delicacies" of the evening was fish cheeks.
I'm glad that they didn't ask me to eat chick cheeks.
It was an interesting meal with wonderful company,
including "grand aunt" who plays tennis twice a week, swims three times, and is
67 years old.
She talked about her father who lifed to 96. She said that
the communists confiscated all of their property during the "Cultural
Revolution," and that he was stuburnly going to live until it was returned. It
wasn't.
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