Sunday was another sunny but cold morning, with strong winds. We decided to visit one last tourist attraction, the Antique Market… an outdoor market place, for the most part, the size of at least two football fields. There were thousands of items for sale, some of them antiques, but mostly products by local artisans. We stayed about 90 minutes, but were freezing in the cold temperatures. We returned to the hotel around 11:00AM, and checked out. We had lunch at a restaurant that had some Chinese dancers and musicians, took some photos of the “BirdsNest”, the main stadium for the 2008 Olympics and “The Bubble”, the swimming venue for the Olympics, then headed off for the airport. We arrived about three hours before our 5:25PM United flight to Chicago and had some tea. We left on time, and after a 13 hour flight, arrived in Chicago at 4:20 PM the very same day. We transferred our luggage, and waited for our final flight to Hartford, which eventually left at 8:05PM and arrived in Hartford around 11:15PM. Except for the ride home, our amazing journey was finally complete! Over the next few days I would be emailing The Century School to thank them for their hospitality and try to make arrangements for the exchange of more staff and possible students.
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