Hello from Beijing (literally, 'North (bei) Capitol (jing)). We had a reasonably uneventful trip in--though we were delayed out of Madison by about 1 hr 45 mins--there was a hole in the third runway in Detroit, which meant the usual traffic had to use 1/3 fewer runways. We got on the plane and were ready to go, and just before we pushed back, the pilot announced the delay. We sat on the tarmac for a while, then finally de-planed. We were watching our connection carefully, but we had some time to spare. Eventually we re-boarded and took off. Had a quick flight to Detroit, and no problem making our connection. The flight was no problem, K didn't even have to take her meds! G was very enamored of her business class 'pod' which had a fully-flat
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