Back to China after 5 months

We couldn't wait more than five months before coming back to China for what may be our last time for a decent duration as Leilei is going to start school later this year.
Drive took 1h30 to Heathrow leaving at 3.50pm
Meal at airport
No sleep on flight - Xixi also not much
HK airport - Andrew realised he'd lost his wedding ring - we asked someone to look for it while we waited for luggage. Miraculously it was found and Andrew was relieved like a man who had had his first dump in seven days.
No time to catch last fast train to Guangzhou, so we arranged a 'bus' from airport. I asked twice if this bus would take us all the way to Guangzhou and was told it would. The bus was a black people carrier that carried us to the border then dumped us off to get on a coach in mainland China. To add insult to injury the company had put us in the wrong coach so we had to move all our stuff into another one in sweat-drenched clothes with half-asleep children.
We got to the stop that we'd been told was 15 mins from airport to be told it was 30 mins. By now it was pissing down with rain and I ran to the front of the hotel where the coach had stopped to arrange to get a taxi-van to take us to the airport. While sorting this out a woman who was on our coach said she was waiting for her husband and they could take us to airport as they had a van. Well I didn't look this gift horse in the mouth and said xie xie very much.
We crammed into the van which was actually very small, but we just managed to get everyone in plus luggage plus the driver's wife and her friend. And managed to crack open a bottle of whisky and took an Awl-sized lug. I managed a bit too. Due to fatigue we felt a little light-headed and shared a laugh as we realised we were now well and truly in China. We paid the man and wife 100 kuai for their time/petrol and got off at airport where we waited a few more minutes for cab to hotel (free service but they didn't allow us to go straight to hotel).
10 minute drive to hotel. Not greatest one on earth but we got some food outside and got to bed around 2.