My good day...I went to a small little gathering of friends for Trine's birthday. Me, Ileana, June, Trine, Mette, Peter, Cristina, and 2 others that I forgot their names were all at Trine's house. She had made some wonderful looking desserts which I had enough will power to not eat. But the cinnamon rolls sure did smell good. It was a great afternoon sitting outside and talking.
Todd's bad day...I picked Cameron up at 3:00 and we headed to Tianjin to get Todd from the airport. He was flying back from Harbin and we were going to go to dinner. We arrived at 3:50. At 4:30 we had still not heard from Todd and he was suppose to be in at 4:00. It was raining pretty hard with thunder and lightening. Mr. Xue called someone and when he got off the phone he said Todd was diverted to Tiayuan. WHAT? Where in the world is that? He explained it was Tianjin, Beijing, and then Tiayuan. Oh no. I wouldn't let him leave until we heard from Todd. Around 4:45 I got a message from Todd saying he had landed but didn't know where he was. I told him where Mr. Xue said he was. He sent a message back saying he was in Yianti which is by Qingdao. WHAT is what I said out loud. Mr. Xue looked at me like I was crazy. I told him where he was and he explained where it was to me. Todd told us to go home but keep Mr. Xue so he could get him at some point.
We were on our way home when I got a message from Todd. He said he was sitting on a 100 degree plane and didn't know when he was going to leave. Poor guy. We arrived home, had dinner, Cameron showered, and we went down to Carrasco's. Alfredo had Brad over and they wanted Cameron to play too. Ileana was looking for someone to have a beer with and I was just that person. Todd sent me a message saying he was on his way. 45 minute flight. Once he was on the ground he sent me another message that said it was a rough flight and I wouldn't believe the story he had to tell me. Hmmm, I couldn't wait until he got home.
Todd came to Carrasco's. Ileana met him with a beer and Todd started to tell us the story. He said the emergency announcement was only in Chinese because they didn't know how to translate that. That is why Todd had no idea where he was. He just knew he was in the air too long and something wasn't right. He asked a stewardess who spoke English where they were. When she told him he asked where that was. When she told him Todd kind of knew the province because of being in Qingdao. He went on to say it was a really rough ride. He tightened his belt twice and he said a couple times he reached out like to grab something because it was just the instinct. He said he was sitting on the wing. All of a sudden there was a loud boom. The plane was either struck by lightening or the engine blew. Thank God the plane still landed without a problem. He said when everyone was getting off they were looking at the engine to see if they could tell what happened. I'm very glad I wasn't on that plane because I would have been puking and bawling. But he is home safely and that is all that matters. Phew, glad this day is over for Todd.
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