Past Surgery, Onto China

Thankfully, KLC is through her surgery and on the mend. When I say that, I think it somehow minimizes how painful and involved this surgery is. I had surgery last summer to repair my torn meniscus, but that was nothing compared to ACL reconstruction. We both have family members who have had worse surgeries (ie, knee replacements), so let’s just say we’re going to do everything we can to avoid that for us if at all possible.

Anyhow, it’s a good thing that KLC is healthy and a quick healer (not to mention a committed PT patient.) That’s because we are less than two weeks away from our trip to China. Yes, China. I am giving a talk at a conference in Beijing, which means my flight and the hotel are covered by work. So once we found a relatively reasonable flight for KLC and their Co-Parent said she could watch the kids, we’re off.

We’ll have a few days after the conference on our own and we just booked flights from Beijing to Guilin for a long weekend with frequent flyer miles. (Don’t even get me started on their hidden fees, etc. in these airline programs, but it was still cheaper than buying the tickets. I think.) I am super excited about Guilin, but this is just based on a handful of websites that I’ve looked at in the past few days. We’ll have to see if they just have a really good photographer who works for the chamber of commerce.

First up, however, about six days in Beijing. I think we’re going to have too much to see and too little time – especially since we’ll try to keep the walking to somewhat of a minimum because of the new ligament in KLC’s knee. We’re extremely excited for this trip. I’ve never been anywhere in Asia and KLC has always wanted to go to mainland China after spending a year teaching in Taiwan.

I’ll try to update everyone back home on our whereabouts on the blog so you may want to skip the entries beginning on October 8th if travel write-ups bore you.

Now we just have to take of seemingly a thousand or so details for our usual lives before we can head out a week from Saturday …