We've all heard the horror stories of people being stuck in airports for days because their flights were delayed. Somehow, it never really sunk in how bad that would be. I guess it was too far removed from my own experience.

I'm packing for China now. Well, at least I should be packing instead of writing blog posts.

So...David and I had a nice flight to China. It went by really quickly for some reason. I'm sure that being in business class helped. And now it's 1am, we're settled into our hotel, and we're wide awake.

After a grand time in Rome, fate decided that we could deal with a little travel misfortune and decided to re-route us to Chicago for a few days.

David was short of making Executive Platinum on American Airlines by just a couple of thousand miles. The end result was a trip to Rome for the week of Christmas, and I could not have been happier.