So it's just after 3am in Guam, and here I sit in the lobby of the Hilton with a cup of coffee and my laptop. Getting here was quite the process, which I exacerbated with my desire to spend Saturday in Dallas with my mom, brother, and sister-in-law.
Our travels began with a flight from Phoenix to DFW that left at 6:20am Phoenix time Saturday morning. We spent a great day with the family in Dallas, staying up late with my mom Saturday night. On Sunday, we left DFW airport for Tokyo at 10am--an almost 13 hour flight.
The flight to Tokyo wasn't as bad as I thought it would be--I haven't flown internationally in a few years and they've improved the in-flight entertainment from my last experience. We each had a small touchscreen video monitor in the back of the seat in front of us, through which we could select from a handful of movies, television shows, radio stations, or just watch the flight progress on a map. I watched two movies and several sitcoms--finally got to check out "Big Bang Theory" which was pretty cute.
So we arrive in Tokyo at about 1pm local time and we have until 9:25pm for our next flight. We wandered the airport for some walking, checked out the duty free shops, and had dinner in a funny little cafeteria. We stopped by the free Yahoo! place to check email, but I had some trouble with the keyboard (hit a wrong button and couldn't get it to stop with the Japanese characters).
That all killed about 4-5 hours. So we went to the gate, I got out my trusty pillow and blanket and proceeded to doze / read / sleep on the floor until our flight to Guam. We left Tokyo at 9:25pm local time for Guam, arriving at about 1:45am Guam time. John's girls met us at the airport, very nice, and now he and the girls are crashed in the car for a couple hours sleep until we take them to breakfast and school.
We tried to see about an early check in to the room here at the Hilton, I wasn't optimistic about getting in at 3am, but I thought maybe by mid-morning. Nope, I was assured by the night desk agent that under no circumstances, ever, at any point in history, do they let people check in early. It's 2pm, or we pay for an extra night. Gotta love that customer service, especially when she flat out told me they've got our room ready!!
And so here I sit.
I'm getting back to my coffee and a good book for now, more to come later.
1 comment:
Glad you made it in ok, thanks for the updates, this is great getting to know all the inside stuff as it happens. How is the weather, of course I hear it is always nice. Give the girls a hug for me and tell them I miss them, can't wait for pictures.
Love Charla
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