{"id":487,"date":"2013-09-23T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2013-09-23T20:36:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:36:45","slug":"saturday-92113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Return, 9\/21\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wake up looking forward to the breakfast buffet.\u00a0 It was worth it!\u00a0 We catch a taxi to Gimpo Airport.\u00a0 We\u2019re flying out of a different airport than our arrival, so we\u2019re getting the Seoul airport tour.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as nice as Incheon, but when we finally find <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">where<\/span> to check in, it\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n<p>The flight is smooth with a meal served along with coffee and soft drinks.\u00a0 We arrive in Beijing on time.\u00a0 Customs clearance is easy.\u00a0 I keep expecting problems and everything is going smoothly.\u00a0 We\u2019re home by 2:45 pm.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a great trip. We unpack quickly and begin recovery mode (nap).<\/p>\n<p>When we wake up, Judy heads over to the mall for some repair work on her nails.\u00a0 I fiddle around with receipts from the trip.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to keep track of everything.\u00a0 BISS has a system set-up where you can earn up to \u00bd of your government income tax back.\u00a0 You must turn in all travel receipts, and they credit it against a flex account they\u2019re holding for each teacher.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t use it, you lose it, so I guess we\u2019ll just have to do a lot of traveling.<\/p>\n<p>Judy is gone a long time.\u00a0 I begin to realize she\u2019s been so busy with school, and class prep that she hasn\u2019t ever been in the local mall by herself.\u00a0 She hasn\u2019t been in a grocery store since July 28.\u00a0 She\u2019s finally finding out what\u2019s available in our neighborhood.\u00a0 I may even let her have money the next time she goes out (joke).<\/p>\n<p>I finish up my class prep, since I\u2019m teaching class tomorrow.\u00a0 Sunday is a \u201cmake-up\u201d day for our missed Friday class day.\u00a0 The government determines the holidays and the makeup days.\u00a0 This is true for all businesses, not just the schools.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the few nights we\u2019ve been in Beijing that I have school tomorrow and Judy doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wake up looking forward to the breakfast buffet.\u00a0 It was worth it!\u00a0 We catch a taxi to Gimpo Airport.\u00a0 We\u2019re flying out of a different airport than our arrival, so we\u2019re getting the Seoul airport tour.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=487\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}