Bye-Bye to Beijing

After a brief ride to the airport by taxi, Collin, Alli, and Hannah began their departure from China at the Beijing International Airport.
After being stuck in line behind the Purdue Marching Band for a few hours, everything seemed to be going well as we boarded the plane. Alli and I made it on the plane, but lost Collin after a last minute bag check as we entered the plane.
As Alli and I took our seats and waited patiently for Collin, a Chinese couple came up to us and showed proof that we were sitting in their seats. It turns out that the airline had made duplicate tickets for our seats. We began getting impatient about Collins whereabouts and worried about our seats on the plane. However, everything turned out better than expected as we were upgraded to business class and found Collin comfortably sitting on the upper level waiting for us.
Complete with reclining seats, socks, and toothbrushes, the flight in business class was great and the twelve hours flight seemed to fly by even though we departed nearly an hour late.
However when we left the plane and began making our way to our connecting flight, we ran into lines and were some of the last few to collect our luggage. It turns out that we missed our connecting flight to Minneapolis.
Nevertheless, United Airlines was very accommodating and booked us on a later flight that evening and after an eventful day we made it home.