Travel day to Tokyo

finished up packing at 3am. mother woke me up at eight am freaking out about how to pack her clothes. (you fold them... roll them... and put the away). i then finished packing everything up and booked our resort in bali-- four stars right on the beach. then went and printed off as much of the information i had for the trip from the bus company. stopped at kinkos got our itineraries bound and made it back to the house minutes before barb platt stopped to bring us to the airport.

got checked in no problem. waited for about thirty minutes in the security line then we were off to detroit. except due to the rain there was a litte bit of a back up to take off. i was already sleeping by then though. detroit flight was uneventful.

landed in detroit and had an hour to get to our next gate to tokyo. boarded the plane at seven. sent out a few last text messages, then we were off. except there was a slight delay as apparently another plane had hit a bird and they needed to check it out. oh. and there was a wife that was suuppoed to sit next to me-- we were the middle two seats of the middle four seats, but she switched with this young dude luis. a second year med student about to start a forty day trek throughout southeast asia. I explained couchsufring and stuff to him. he is on a fifteen hour layover in tokyo before he heads to singapore.. unsure of what to do, i invited him to join us with julian tomorrow to see a little bit of tokyo before he heads to the other airport for his flight. so, we are cramming 3 people in our 190 square meter hotel room in tokyo. we hoped a train and then taxied it to our hotel. it was 2700 yen for the taxi. divided by three now not so bad.

popped a couple benadryl ready to pass out