At long last the final details of my return trip are almost all finalized. On Sunday August 21, I will leave the Jinan Airport at 7:50am on a plane (MU5193) to the Beijing Airport. I will arrive in Beijing at 8:50am. After this we have what I think is a long wait for the next flight. The long flight on Air China (CA991) will leave for Vancouver at 3pm. We are scheduled to arrive in Vancouver at 11:00am or so. From here we have to go through customs and the like. The next and final flight (AC8282) will leave Vancouver at 2pm and arrive in Regina at 5pm. . I should mention that all times are local. This is going to be the longest single day of my life. Since I will be waking up probably around 6am on August 21 and arriving at home at 5pm the same day in the afternoon. The strangest thing will be leaving Beijing at 3pm and arriving at home at 5pm. . It should be an interesting and long day..

On Wednesday August 3rd, somebody from Intel will be visiting the company. He is going to get the tour around. That means I will be going to Taishan and Confuscious hometown. I have already been to Taishan but going again will still be a lot of fun. This time though, we won’t have enough time to walk to the top so we will just take the cable car. That sounds pretty lame to me, I think getting that exercise would have been good. Also on the touring, we will visit Confuscious hometown. I have never gone here before so it should be interesting. I’ll have to make sure to take my camera and take a lot of pictures. I think this is going to be a really long day but it should be worth it.

I recently changed the color of the top image. The newer darker color is reflecting the sun setting on my time in China, and so begins my countdown until I return.