Beijing to Chicago in only an hour and a half

KT slept in yesterday when I visited the forbidden city, then we both headed out for the Pearl Market before finally coming home around 10pm with a body-sized duffle bag of trinkets, knick-knacks , and other souveniers for our families and friends back home.

I have another 6 hours in China before my United flight takes off from Beijing to Chicago (4pm). The 15 hour flight leaves at 4:20pm and amazing arrives the same day at 5:40pm, just 1:20 later. Hopefully, most of this unearned time will be spend accumulating the sleep I'll need to stave off jet lag. After the last ten weeks of catching Z's in buses, trains, airplanes, and sweaty hostel beds, it hopefully won't be too hard.