After driving to Beijing, we checked into the airport at around 11AM...about 2 hours before our departure. Apparently, someone famous was about to land as there were multiple camera crews and a huge audience waiting outside the entrance. Unfortunately, Beijing only allows one personal item and a carryon suitcase...(any sized backpack weren't allowed since they have two straps, while single strapped bags of ALL sizes were allowed)...this caused us to repack frantically. Finally, we checked in our luggage and headed to the monorail to reach our departure gate. Ended up going through customs, etc and finally had about ~30 minutes before our plane left before we finally made it to the terminal. We were parched and ended up buying lots of bottles of water for the plane ride (at a more expensive price too!), but unfortunately....flights to the US from China prohibited all water that people carried on...talk about epic fail. This obviously angered a lot of people, and especially us, since we even asked during checkin about this and they told us we COULD bring water that we bought in the airport after we cleared security.
Flight was fairly standard...ended up watching Push, Dragonball, and another movie... The cool part of the flight was that we ended up sitting next to the Chinese National Volleyball team, who was coming to the US for summer training/ competitions. Landed in SFO about 30 minutes early, and hung around in the terminal for a bit before our connecting flight left. Apparently, we even ended up passing by Michelle Obama, who was at the airport too! Ending up eating some good old clam chowder with sourdough for lunch before boarding our flight.
On the ride to Boston, I ended up sleeping for most of the trip. The most amazing part was the end, since we were landing during a sunset. We ended up seeing an amazing view of Boston in the sunset and the accompanying landscape. Afterwards, my dad picked us up from the airport and we arrived home at about 9PMish. I was completely awake and wasn't able to fall asleep for a while.
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