Library Ties

Our last day in China was mostly for travel. Some went out shopping, some slept in, some spent time packing all the stuff we bought, and a variety of other options. I read for a while and then packed. It was pouring down rain, and I wasn’t willing to tackle the weather. It was kind of nice to have a little quiet time. At 11:30 we loaded up the bus and went to the train station. Daniel was taking us to the airport, but we used the time in the lobbying to make sure we all had our picture taken with him.

We are riding the Mag Lev train to the airport. This train can travel up to 275 miles per hour. It was raining today, so it didn’t get going quite that fast. But, we were to the airport in 7 minutes.

We grabbed our luggage and went through security. We had plenty of time to eat some lunch (Burger King), a little more shopping, and then I exchanged the last of my Chinese money back to US dollars. We boarded the plane and got set for a 13 hour flight home.

The flight was long. I slept maybe 2 hours. We landed in Chicago about 6pm EST on Friday. We left Shanghai at 4:30pm on Friday (China time). So, I’d been up almost 24 hours once we landed in the states. We hopped on a bus and headed home. We got back to Indy around 11pm. By the time I got home and something to eat, I got to bed late.

On Saturday I slept in late. Been working on things a little at time today like finishing up these blog posts! Hopefully I’ll get back to normal tomorrow! But, it was all worth it. It was an amazing trip. I learned and saw so much in the last few days! We had an amazing group and a fantastic experience that I think it might just be hard to top!

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