Saturday, August 28, 1999

China Southern starts our flight with sushi at 7 a.m. We skip that and settle for the Haagen-Daz for dessert. We flew up the West Coast, over Alaska, across the Bering Sea. A little monitor lets us count off the miles and follow the plane.

Somewhere around 2 p.m. Syracuse time we cross the International Date Line. That means it's now tomorrow, or yesterday. This is the kind of thing Kaylee will know when she's 6.

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