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Ah yes, my trip to China. It'll be here in oh say.....2 months...which is far to quick.

So I've never flown this far west before. In fact I've never flown over a BIG body of water, besides the Gulf of Mexico, and that was nothing.

I'm freaked. Absolutely freaked out about going to this country.

I'm trying to tell myself...it's a once in a lifetime experience that I may never have again. But guess what? It's not making it the least bit better.


.....so I started writing the first half of this blog a few days ago. Then I saw this video:



It was on the Today show and one of the anchors mentioned that the chance of being in a plane crash is 1 in 11,000,000. So what I'm thinking is that as long as the flights I'm taking to China, in China and from China are below that 11,000,000 since this German plane had issues, I should be fine right?

Of course I told this to Kyle and he had this intellectual (and far too long) scientific response. Ultimately the statistics are actually far more then 1 in 11,000,000. SO woo hoo! No plane crashes!

In all seriousness, I was letting the nerves of flying get to me about this trip. I have since been trying to watch and read as much on China as possible. Ok it's not the Caribbean but it's a culture that has so much history, it's hard not to want to take that all in. I'm a history buff, however I think I slept through most of China's history in class, but I digress I still want to learn more. Mind you this trip is strictly for the purpose of really branching out and realizing we're in a global community and China is growing, VERY fast. I'm blessed to be able to have this opportunity and I'm finally feeling right about taking full advantage of it.



PLUS! I hear you can get North Face jackets for dirt cheap and the shopping is incredible!!! Come on, priorities people.