A lost day

On the day of our departure for Yangshuo my friend Charlotte and I went to the airport excited about vacation.  Our flight was supposed to leave at 11:45am and 8 hours later we were finally boarding the flight.   By the time we actually boarded and the plane took off we had been in the airport for over 10 hours.

When we checked in they told us the flight was delayed but they couldn't tell us anything else.  We decided the gate could probably tell us more so we went through security.  The gate didn't know anything and said to check back in 5 hours.  MAYBE they would know something.  To us this was unimaginable.  If this happened in the states there would be some PO'd people.  But it really surprised me that it could happen in China.  Chinese are not the kind of people who would patiently wait in an airport without knowing anything.  For all we knew we'd continue to wait and the flight would be canceled.  After exploring the airport more it seemed that all flights were delayed due to weather and some people weren't quite so calm.  We got 2 free meals and thought of ways this could be worse.  There was nothing planned for when we arrived so we weren't missing anything.  We waited patiently.  At 1am we woke up the poor little man assigned to answer the doorbell at our guest house.  The next morning we woke up to a beautiful view and a nice breakfast.