Saturday, July 12, 2008

Back to Japan

Here I am, hot and humid Tokyo.
Today was such a tiring day.

Got woken up by Dennis and Matt turning up 20min ealier than expected (nothing wrong with it guys, but it was just not expected) after having only about 2 hours of sleep due to the moe's adventure /puzzle the day before.

Went to the airport, Dennis kept reminding me that I had too much carry-on luggages. Well I had 3 huge bags.
Saxophone (doesnt count as a part of carry-on)
Laptop (Well suppose I had other stuff stuffed in it)
and carry on country road bag (It was 2kg over)
But dennis, I was not stopped ONCE by anyone through Melbourne or Sydney, so you know what you have to do... Be prepared and take a photo when you do it.

Melbourne to Sydney went fine. Going through custom was a little bit of pain just because I had this three heavy luggage's with me to carry all the time. But there were no trouble.
The flight to Narita was supposed to leave at 9:55am. I was kinda panicking because the custom was really busy and I didnt get out of it until 9:40am. When I looked at the boarding info screen thing, I could not find my flight number.... Gave me a fright that I might have already missed the plane. haha also felt sorry for the agen Katherine for failing the mission of kicking me out of the country (well, Dennis would be disappointed).
But it turned out that The flight was delayed to 11:30am because some equipments did not arrive on time or something. so I had to waste my time playing DS for about 1.5 hours. But it seemed that all the flights leaving Sydney were delayed or cancelled. So it must have been bad weather or something was wrong with the Sydney airport. was very disorganised.

Finally got on the plane, told that because it was too windy one of the passage? was closed so we had to line up for the one passage thats available to take off. So that was another 30min delay.
After taking off, we had quite good services from Qantas.
Lunch- I had fish as I was told
Snack- 2 splices, 3 pretzels
Dinner -Pasta
Drinks- 3 OJ about 1L of water
I think they felt pity for us that we have been delayed.

It was such a tiring trip. I sat next to this lady. she was extremely nice but something about her made me uncomfortable and restless. The flight itself was 9 hours but it felt like ages...

I was picked up by my mom and my brother. Funny thing was they didnt realise me until I went and talked to them.. I think because they were waiting for the delayed flight for 1 hour in prior, they were tired. But it was actually quite funny looking at their face expression.

Man, I am exhausted. I will go to bed.
Tomorrow is going to be my rest day from the crazy week I had in Australia.

Thanks again so much for presents people!
During the flight, there were so many teary moments for me....
Also, Laura, I restrained myself from opening the envelop good! I think I can wait untill I leave for US :)

2 comments:

DK said...

Good to know you got there safe, and was actually picked up. (Y)

Pat said...

glad you took my advice...