Hello China - and H1N1

Our horror trip was somewhat mitigated by Ben and Jerry's at Hong Kong airport (thanks to Poppie for introducing Alex to that :)) whilst we waited for our delayed flight (so much delayed that we were given vouchers to eat at the airport). The kids had a ball playing on the various play mock-airplanes in the food court area. But it was late - and only getting later. We eventually arrived at Xiamen airport only to have to fill out additional paperwork to do with H1N1 and join a humongous queue to have our temperatures taken and then mouth swabs taken. Alex was already cranky and tired (being up 3 hours past your bedtime without a party in sight does that to you) and she had a melt down when she saw that there were doctor types poking and prodding people and putting sticks in their mouths. But we made it through and with instruction sheet in hand telling us to self-quarantine at home for seven days :( - and then into a taxi and home to collapse in a heap. It was then that we realised that we should have had a barrel of water waiting for us at our house - as we had no drinking water and no shops were open at 11pm. We scavenged a little water from the fridge then resolved to fix things in the (soon to be) morning.

Welcome home...