We have a late flight, so we slept late and ate a big buffet breakfast. Before we left the hotel and started for the airport, we visited the hotel “Ice Bar”. It’s a huge igloo built next to the main building of the hotel. It has several rooms built off a long hall. One is the bar with tables, there are several meeting rooms, and a larger room at the end for serving meals. All the furnishings are built out of ice. I wouldn’t want the duty of working in that facility. It’s seriously cold.

We took a taxi out to the airport, ate lunch at Burger King, worked through security (much easier than Beijing), and arrived at our very crowded gate area. There were six gates in close proximity, and six flights all leaving within the same hour. There weren’t enough seats and it was a madhouse. On the plane wasn’t much better. It was cramped, but at least we had individual screens for movies, etc. A quick two-hour flight and we were home. It doesn’t take long to unpack from a short weekend trip, thank goodness.