The record still holds!

I swear ... this is totally going in the record books. I took another 12-hour non-stop flight and didn't pee once! this is the third of my career!! i was totally planning on going this flight ... even asked the nice lady at the asiana airlines counter for an aisle seat ... she gave me the back row! this was a boeing 777 plane .... HUGE! so i was set. i'd have free access via the aisle, and then not have to really walk anywhere since the bathroom was right next to me. on the other side, i'd have to listen to the toilet flush about 3,200 times in the next 12 hours. anyway, we're all settled into our seats ... the plane has taken off ... i've made uncomfortable small talk with the guy sitting next to me .... when WHAMMO! he offers to buy my seat from me. he's like 'what's it worth to you' ... since i normally don't sit in the aisle or in the back it didn't have a lot of sentimental value. i said i wasn't sure. he needed to close the sale, so he says 'look, i don't eat on planes, i only drink beer non-stop. so it's going to get annoying if i keep bugging you to get out.' he did have a point ... so i asked him his price and we settled on $60. i thought about giving it to him for free, but i can't turn down cash within 24 hours of a major shopping excursion .... DOI!

so the flight wasn't bad at all ... i watched 'the holiday' and realized cameron diaz is perhaps the worst working actress in america. what else .... oh! they give you free socks on this airline! fun! the air waitresses dress in chic tapue from head to toe (head-to-taupe?)

so we land in seoul at 5:20 a.m. and our flight doesn't leave until 10:20 a.m. We kill time by eating korean potato chips and checking out their fancy new airport. this ain't no LAX!

after arriving in Shanghai after our 2-hour connecting flight, we hit the ground running and started seeing the sights. i can't really even remember what we did, since we were all pretty much in a fog. we realized we never got a june 4 ... we left june 3 and woke up on june 5 ...same clothes, same everything for two straight days. we were all stanky and needed to brush our teeth and shower .... but the tour guide ("Tony") didn't care and kept dragging us around. we finally got to our hotel at 8 p.m. and immediately showered. it was the best shower EVER!!! we totally relished it and savored every second .... then afterward we sat there and talked about how great our showers were. my roommate is a fellow MBA student, lauren. there's 5 MBAs on the trip, and the rest of the 31 are undergrads .... and boy are they young! more later ....