A pleasant surprise in our travel planning

boston→detroit→shanghai-guangzhou→hong kong→detroit→boston
After booking the 16 flights and embarking on myriad last minute home-projects, Gerry and I were feeling a little frazzled.  However, did I tell you how amazing Gerry is?

When Gerry was a youngerish professional, he worked his **** off traveling every single week (usually multi-city trips) for a number of years. He thus accrued a nice stash of frequent flyer and Amex points that we never, ever touched.  Ever.  Not even once, well once he did give some to his aunt who was not well.  Anyway, we wanted to use them but just never did.  Bottom line - we ended up having to buy a smallish number of points and our in-country flights but did manage to get our flights to and from China all first/business class for the cost of one coach ticket!!  I think Gerry was really happy to be able to do this and it will be really nice.  I guess you can lie down in these seats so I am gearing up for a nice 15 hour nap:)  Sounds kind of nice, in a way, don't you think?