Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Bus


Allen, a student, ordered a better bus but I guess the company didn’t feel like giving him what he requested. There were 29 of us but only 28 seats. This bus had seats that fold out into the isles to make full use of every square centimeter. I saw the bus driver working on the tires after it got us to the hotel on Saturday which didn’t bode well – but it was the next day that it actually broke down as it was coming to pick us up at the entrance to the park. Since it was in the middle of the road (normal for all cars, trucks etc) it ended up blocking the buses going down which was probably a good thing because the blocked bus driver got out and helped our driver fix our bus. The bus made it back but not until the bus driver took a wrong turn and we ended up going the wrong way round the Hangzhou Express Ring which added an extra hour or so to coming back. Most of the kids didn’t notice, they were asleep.