A Tearful Good-bye - Sunday, 7/1

We have just bid good-bye to our host families and friends and boarded the van to head to the train station.  All of the girls' discussion on the van is about the relationships that they have made and the memories that they have shared with their new Chinese friends and families. 

Thus, we embark on the long journey home:
We have a few hours to Shanghai and a two hour busride to cross Shanghai to get from the train station to the airport.
At 5:00pm, we board a thirteen hour flight to Dallas.  We have to hustle through the customs' rigamarole in Dallas to catch our connection.  At about 8:30, we will be heading for Indianapolis, scheduled to arrive in Indy at 11:37pm on AA #2711.
(If flight disruptions occur, I will update here.)

And so, we have a lot of traveling left to do, but we are on our way...