Well, here we are in Hong Kong on our final day of the journey, awaiting our direct flight home to LAX. (looks like we got out just in time, as it's looking to get a little crazy in Bangkok tomorrow: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir eStory/thai-capital-braces-protest-shut down-21502705 We had an perfect and uneventful flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong early this morning -- wait -- except for the European couple behind us at the Air Asia check-in counter. No...

We are well on our way, and it is 8:20 PM Hong Kong time right now, (4:20 AM to our bodies), and feeling pretty good so far. We are currently in HK, waiting for our last flight of the day, a 3 hour flight to Bangkok. The day started off with our early departure from Orange County, connecting in San Francisco. Simple flight, that went off timely and we retrieved our bags in SFO without any hitches. I wanted to hand carry them to the Cathay Pacific terminal, and no...