About time...

We finally made it.

The trip started out at about 4am CT, way too early.  Brett and I got on the first flight at 6:20 after saying goodbye to our parents (mom said she only used 4 kleenexes, I'm so proud of her!).  You know how you always see 'that guy' in the airport?  The one that you just say to yourself, 'theres no way that I'll have to sit by him.'?  Well today it was this lil skiny asian dude who was standing there talking to someone on the phone.  But he just kept repeating the same thing over and over about 12 times, no joke.  "Time? Time? Time? Time? Clock? Clock? Clock? Clock? Numbers? Numbers? Numbers? Numbers?"  He was crazy.  We walked past him, smiled to ourselves, got on the plane, AND THERE HE WAS, in the same row, right next to us!  What are the odds?!?  We flew with him to Houston in 2 hours and had a 2 hour layover.  Thankfully he disappeared after that.  Continental got about 200 people seated for our next flight to Tokyo before they decided it would be a good idea to ask everyone to get off the plane for maintenance reasons.  That was awesome, not.

QUICK STORY - As I was packing, I had everything stuffed into my carry-on EXCEPT my neck pillow that my mother made me purchase :) So...she said, "Instead of finding a place for it, just wear it around the airport on your neck!" She was joking, I promise.  The sad thing is, I saw this 'awesome' guy in the Houston airport with his straw hat and his neck pillow around his neck.  It made me laugh! Thanks mom :)

We all got back on the plane after about 45 mins.  For all of you people out there who complain about being short, don't.  Sitting on a plane for 13 hours would've been much more enjoyable if I was 5' tall.  Oh, and another thing.  Airplane food? Yeah, that stuff is TERRIBLE.  I was gonna take a picture of it but I didn't wanna risk breaking my camera.  I ended up snacking on nutter butters, delicious cookies that Heather made, and deer jerky made by good ol' Ben Dennis.  That stuff was real good.  Over the course of the flight I ended up watching She's Out of my League (great movie! I'd suggest it), Bounty Hunter (poor), Family guy, The Office, Bolt, half of Clash of the Titans (poopy), Two and a Half Men and even had time for a virtual round of mini golf.  Great success.  We got off the plane and I had too see what Mac and Don's steakhouse tasted like.  Amazingly, potatoes here taste like potatoes there!  Who'd've thunk?  Then we got on the last flight from Tokyo to Singapore, I slept like a baby for 6ish hours.  The rest is boring, we eventually made it to our rooms safe and sound with all of our luggage.  I was quite pleased.  One day down, 4.5 months to go.