Our new friends had found us a ride to the airport for only $15 total. Fantastic!
When it was time to check in we got nervous. How much will they charge us for the bikes? $400 each as the airline website says?
We got held up for quite a while because the lady at the check in desk would not give James a boarding pass since he had no USA visa. As a UK cititzen he only requires an online ESTA confirmation, which he had received, but the lady insisted that he needed additional paper work. We could not believe it. We are going to miss our plane if she does not sort this out. After several phone calls to one of her superiors it turned out that she had not understood the English note "passenger cleared for boarding" on her screen. Just a beginners language issue but it sure put us on hot coals.
Only one last hurdle left, the bike check in. We were directed to the oversized luggage desk where they accepted our bike boxes with out any hassle and before we knew it they had disappeared on the conveyor belt. The attendant nodded and smiled and when he saw our confused looks he pointed to the passenger security check. You mean we do not have to pay for the bikes? We could not believe it. WOW!
Aside from the delay at the check in desk, absolutely everything had run so smoothely since our first day in Beijing. We were so happy the other host had cancelled on us because the place we ended up at could not have been better.
THANK YOU LORD FOR INTERFERING IN OUR PLANS BECAUSE YOU HAD SOMETHING BETTER IN MIND!
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