How about a blog?
I am sitting in Korea at the airport for a two hour layover
between Washington D.C. and Hong Kong. I’m in for another adventure!
I went to the doctor yesterday to get some medicine I needed
and the doc’s office was supposed to electronically send my prescriptions to
the pharmacy. I arrive at Rite Aid pharmacy ten minutes before closing to find
out that my prescriptions were not sent there at all. My mom takes the liberty
to call CVS to see if the doc’s office sent it there by mistake, God bless her!
There was no record of anything being sent to any CVS for me at all. It’s closing
time. Where is my medicine? I leave for China in twelve hours.
Morning comes. Momma kicks into high gear to track it down.
She did that amazing thing mom’s do when their kids have an important event to
attend, explaining why her child’s schedule is more critical than whatever they
currently have on their plate and orchestrating a montage of individuals at
just the necessary speed to accomplish the goal and send the child calmly onto
the stage (In this case, it was turbo speed and my stage was a China-bound
airplane). Thank you mom!
Problem solved. She got the medicine. Only instead of
getting me to the airport by 11:30 am, 12 noon at the latest, she thought I said
we needed to leave by 12 at the latest. It was
a rough conversation as I told her that if she wasn’t willing to speed,
she needed to simply let me drive. She
moved impressively quick for momma. She said “If you get pulled over for speeding,
it will take longer because you don’t have your license on you” to which I
swiftly replied “No. It will be quick. I will tell them the truth that I left
my license in China eight weeks ago and I just happen to be on my way back to
retrieve it and will do so speedily if they will kindly leave me alone” to
which we laughed as Ashton sat in the back seat eating a banana that once my
mom smelled, commented “Ashton you must be eating a banana, one with black
spots on it.” Interesting? Okay not so much. She got me to the airport in time.
I arrived just after boarding began.
I didn’t feel the urge to sleep, probably because it was a
mid day flight. It was almost 14 hours and I managed to watch six movies. Just
as I dozed off for the first time, within forty minutes, we were landing.
On money matters, it was tight. Did I mention that for the
first time in any of my traveling adventures, my carry on and personal item
were actually weighed. I had to pay $200.00 with a bankcard that was already
overdrawn (into my dwindling overdraft protection credit account) just to check
an extra bag. I had three checked bags, one personal item and $-200.00. Thank
you God for blessing me with a good job, so I can fix that soon!
I will take a taxi from Hong Kong Airport to some Chinese
border and then another taxi to my apartment, which I don’t remember the
entrance code for. Fortunately, Christina has watered my plants all summer… I
hope and she can tell me what it is (If my phone isn’t dead).
That’s all for now.
Here’s to another year of Brittany’s Traveling Adventures!
