I had originally left my Friday flexible so that I could get an activity done in the morning then head into the work in the afternoon and work through the evening to coincide with US work hours so that I didn’t have to take a vacation day as I hoard those like a squirrel preparing for winter.
The original plan for the team for this trip was to arrive on Saturday morning and leave to the airport on Thursday night after work. I extended my trip an extra 2 days to leave Saturday night. In order to do that, I had to get manager approval which was an easy sell because my flight was $1000 cheaper than the rest of the team.
I’ve been anticipating this trip to come to our Mumbai office for almost a year and now that I’m here, this entire week has been a blur.
When we checked into the hotel on Friday night I saw a flier advertising free yoga lessons on Saturday and Sundays at 7am. I forced myself to go to bed at a reasonable time so I could wake up and see how yoga is in India. It reminded me of when I did Tai Chi in Hong Kong last November when we were there for a week.
The travel doctor I went to see before the trip had prescribed me ambient to help with adjusting with the time change quickly. I heard some bad side effects from people’s personal experiences with it so I decided to take a benadryl instead because I didn’t want to be sleep walking the streets of Mumbai in the middle of the night.
I wanted to provide some life updates before I get started on blogging about what’s going on with this new trip.
My flight to return back to Minneapolis was at 7:30pm which meant that I had a majority of the day to make the most of it while in Seoul as long as I was packed up and ready to head to the airport at 3pm.
On Saturday morning we got an email at 3am saying that our flight out of Seoul at 7pm Sunday night with a 5pm Sunday arrival time in Minneapolis has been delayed until 8am the next day which means we wouldn’t be getting in until at least 6am.
Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone! I’ve been running 3 days behind on blog posts because I was cramming for my a Japanese chapter test on Tuesday that was really stressing me out.
We’re currently staying at the Cordis Hotel in Mon Kok for the week we’re in Hong Kong. Kimberly found it for like $150 a night and it has 2 bedrooms and 1.25 bath which is really convenient for the 3 of us. One of the major selling points of the hotel is that they have daily tai chi classes every morning at 9am that you can sign up for.
