Day and Night 7
5.45 morning call
Due to a 3 hour bus ride to Nanjing, and the need to be at the airport before noon, we encountered our earliest wake up call yet. At 0545 hours. Thankfully I had packed the previous night, and unlike some others, did not have to rush.
Considering that almost everyone was partying till the wee hours of the morning, almost everyone was fast asleep on the ride to Nanjing. Including myself.
We were supposed to visit the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, and were greeted by a long snaking queue of mainly Chinese schoolchildren. We tried queuing for about 20 minutes, and then gave up, as it simply took too long, and we had a flight to catch.
The long and snaking queue reminded me of those at the Tokyo Expo, which I had visited last year. At least we didn’t queue for 3hours this time! ;)
So on to Nanjing International Airport, where we were supposed to eat lunch.
Due to a lack of fast food, and given time constraints, my group purchased instant noodles to eat for lunch. Supposedly, SIA was the only international airline to operate out of Nanjing. (not counting Dragon Air…).. Nonetheless, we entertained ourselves, discussing dfs and more, and soon enough, we were boarding the plane to take us back home.
Caught a couple of movies and played a few games on the way back, in an otherwise uneventful flight.
Touched down at approximately 1940hours, and was on the way home by 2010hours.
Great Trip, but nonetheless, its great to be back.
Cheers.
photo credits go to: Joel Khoo, Seow Chun Ming, Ronald Ip and myself...
