West Shore High Schools Marching Bands - China 2008

June 23-25Packing and Traveling

June 23

June 24 – Travel Day

Travel Day (Cont.)

Airport Check-in and waiting to board

Newark Airport

The Flight to China

The 13 hour flight took us north over Canada, Greenland, about 140 miles from the North Pole (didn’t see Santa), then over Russia, and on to China.

We had 138 people on Continental, and 53 people on the United flight, and both arrived in Beijing at about the same time.

Beijing Airport

On the road to Chengde

It started off foggy (and perhaps a bit smoggy)….then the rain storm began...

…but most didn’t notice.

An interesting omen was found in a pack of gum

A pit stop (literally) at the halfway point to Chende

Finally after a 4 hour drive, we arrived at our hotel in Chengde. We settled down for a late dinner and early bed

time. After all, wake up calls were coming at 4:30 AM.