Day 1: First leg--MPS to SFO

This summer we are going to Asia for the first time.  My husband Randy thought it would be fun to completely circumnavigate the globe.  We fly from Minneapolis to San Francisco for a few days, then to Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jaipur and Delhi (India), Dubai (UAE), Cairo (Egypt), Istanbul/rural Turkey, New York City, and finally back to Minneapolis.  Lots of flights between cities.  Egypt is in Africa though it doesn't seem like an African nation; so I guess we're going to both Asia and Africa this summer.  

(image from 123rf.com via Google photos)

We left our house at 12:30 and our daughter Shelby gave us a ride to the light rail station (which goes to the airport).  She is housesitting for us while we are gone.  She needs to stay in Minneapolis to finish her internship, work, and take a class.  She is a pre-vet major at the University of Minnesota in Wildlife Management.  This year it is just Randy, Joshua, and I.  We saw some people at the light rail station dressed to go downtown to the Pride celebration.  I've only been once since we are usually gone during it.  I marched in the parade with the Minneapolis Public Schools group that year.

Joshua on the light rail train to the airport.

Sun Country requires you to check your bags now (checking is less expensive than carry-on and you don't have to deal with the liquids thing at security).  So we checked our bags and had an uneventful flight to San Francisco.  Sun Country has a thing now where you can check into their wi-fi and watch movies and shows.  

Short arms make a slightly weird looking group selfie in the airplane!

At the San Francisco Airport (SFO), we took the hotel shuttle to an airport hotel in San Mateo.  When we went to our room, we discovered one bed instead of the two that we had reserved, so we had to go back to the desk to get our correct room. 

The hotel is in a slightly industrial area without any restaurants in walking distance, so we ate at the restaurant in the Holiday Inn next door.  Nothing else to do, we are in the hotel trying to access the wi-fi and I've pulled out the deck of cards.  We're also trying to figure out what we want to see tomorrow.  One day in San Francisco, then on to Hong Kong on Monday.  We do the weird little dance crossing the international date line, so we lose a day and land in Hong Kong (via a short layover in South Korea) late Tuesday night.