And so the journey begins.
On Friday, we all met at the church and were driven to the airport by Jason, Craig, and Terri. Then we hopped a plane to Chicago only to be delayed and diverted, causing us to miss out flight to Tokyo by 10 minutes are so. After a long of waiting and sitting and begging, we got rebooked to a flight going out of JFK the next morning; to get there, we took a plane to Laguardia. All but 2 of our 12 bags were left in O'Hare. We were told that they'd be forwarded to JFK. They wern't.
And so we spent the night at a Holiday Express and got on our 13 hour flight to Narita airport. It was a long flight. We passed through so many time zones and date lines and what not that somewhere in the time-space continuum, we lost Saturday.
So now we get to Sunday.
We arrived in Narita Sunday morning and were greeted by Steve and Janet Kunnecke, and later found out that our baggage wouldn't make it until Tuesday (thankfully, that actually happened). So that day was spent driving through Tokyo and getting settled. Tokyo is a beautiful city; there's definetly more value put into cleanliness and athstetics here in Japan. Everywhere you look there's flowers, gardens, even "farmland" (patches of land, no matter how big, that are bought for cultivating veggies is called farmland). Our first Japanese dining experience? McDonalds! Everything is TINY compared to American Mickey D's fine goods. We went out shopping that evening for new clothes and toiletries, and then went out for gyoza (pot stickers). Finally, we got ourselves MUCH needed showers and sleep. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment