Losing Our Slot at HKG

 The delays also caused unto First, the good news. We're sitting in a modern Cathay Dragon business class seat and enjoying our personal video players.

However, the weather-caused delay also caused us to lose our takeoff slot.

If all goes well, we'll be landing in Chengdu about 12:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, as the Aussie-accented captain put it.

Fortunately we had no big plans for Thursday. Tomorrow's going to be a sleeping-in kind of day.