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For Christmas, Santa stuffed two tickets to the states in our stockings, a 29 hour odyssey which included 17 hours in the air, nine hours hanging in terminals and three more hours getting out of LAX.
It was worth every body search.
Honestly, nothing is more wonderful than getting off a plane from China, arriving in America and hearing the wonderful sound of SPANISH being spoken.
Our adventure started with a 7 hour delay at the Beijing Airport. We hung out and did nothing for hours on end…not that different than what we’ve been doing in San Clemente for the past week. We noshed on Burger King fries, Chinese Starbucks and belgium chocolates (thanks to a Euro passenger we befriended). But instead of nibbling on overpriced airport food, we’re currently indulging on pillow sized bags of Cocoa Puffs, burritos smothered in sour cream, yogurt drenched pretzels, pistachios, red and green m&ms, holiday hams, donuts, surfin chicken, and of course, In and Out Burgers (animal style).
We’ve been taking in some interesting sights…sights more interesting than what we viewed at the international terminal during our delay (although we did meet a German lady who was flying from Paris to LAX via Beijing due to the snowstorms in Europe. She’s the one who bequeathed us with an outrageous amount of marzipan and belgium chocolates). Since we’ve been at Jeff’s brother’s abode, our eyes have been glued to their 46 inch flat screen TV, watching quality programming such as COPS, MAN vs. FOOD, and NFL football.
Jeff and I enjoyed Christmas shopping, just to smell the aroma of the food court at a mega mall. America stinky can not compare to Chinese stinky. Cinnabons, Auntie Anne’s pretzels, Corndogs, and Gryos create a euphoric blend to our deprived nostrils. We’ve also enjoyed NOT being stared at, blending in with the assortment of skin colors, ethnicities and sizes of Southern California. But since we do not have nose jobs, breast implants, hair plugs or butterscotch-toned tans, we did look a little odd.
We don’t miss the Chinese traffic: not even holiday crowds at a mega mall can compete to Kunming chaos on a typical weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIjwL-QlZ4
We’ll be back in China soon enough, but until then, we’ll enjoy every minute of our Californian stocking stuffer.
January 2nd, 2011 at 8:51 am hey，your blog have so many stange words to me! so i need to use the pc-dictionary to read it.but i could memorize words by the way! when will you be back? China,kunming welcome you and Ginger! we are waiting for you!LOL