Hello from Hong Kong

What we learned on our first flight ...

• 17 hours on a plane really doesn't seem like 17 hours - it seems more like 1,000 hours.
  
• To get from Chicago to Hong Kong, you need to go over the Arctic
  
• If you taxi for an hour waiting for the right wind, you burn enough fuel to need refueling
  
• Hot noodles make a tasty airplane snack
  
• Hannah Montana is not very funny on little sleep
  
• If you go outside the plane at a high altitude, it's 57 degrees below zero - so don't do that
  
• You can go to the bathroom 10 times on a 17 hour flight

We are awaiting flight 869 to Ho Chi Minh City!