latest update

hahaha,

yvr. vancouver airport.

you guys are gonna shoot me but.... i couldn't find my camera, so didn't bring it.

mom has hers, so we can use hers. mine is MIA.

so we're still in yvr. our flight was delayed 5hrs due to weather, so they say. so we have been enjoying a leisurely afternoon lolling around the airport.

in about an hour they will board us on our plane. Then we begin a 12hr marathon.

there won't be much of a layover in beijing now, since they will just hold our connecting flight long enough for all of us delhi-bound to transfer, then we'll be up in the air again for another 6.

should be good and tired when we arrive. will need to rest up before heading to rishikesh.

so that is our update.

rather fun to have my laptop in the airport and to be able to plug in and access internet anywhere. very cool. the airport is very very quiet today. its nice. no crowds, no line-ups, peaceful.

i didn't write about how i finally got my visa, but i tell ya, it could hardly have been more down to the wire than it was. yesterday i went to the office at 1pm and lined up. waited for over an hour until my number was called to the counter. left mom down at the waterfront center, a couple of blocks away, with out luggage and a newspaper. then once i got to the counter they couldn't find it at first! I waited another 15 minutes while they hunted high and low. wow, that was tense. They were nervous too. Finally they located it, in its express post envelope, waiting to be mailed out! We were this close to missing it and having it mailed back to kamloops. it should have never been in that post envelope as i had requested on friday that they hold in the office for pick up and not to, under any circumstances, mail the little sucker.

phew!

ok, so we are lining up at the gate now.