Friday morning, after getting up and enjoying the awesome breakfast at the Embassy Suites- where their chefs would cook whatever you wanted for your breakfast- right in front of you. After breakfast we both crammed our carry-on's as full as we possibly could and headed to the airport. Melanie had to hand check the medicine again, and it wasn't as big of a pain as it was the first time, but it was still an extensive process. We made it to our gate, after a quick stop at the Ghiradelli store near our gate to buy some treats for the trip. We made it on our plane rather uneventfully, and flew out around 11:39 am. Business Class was awesome. There was a ton of room. It was more than 4x the space, but they are usually 4x the price also. Thanks again to Monty! We dozed in and out, then they served us dinner-- Warm cashews and our drinks before our meal. Then salad and Mozzarella balls and Olives. Then cold shirmp and a California sushi roll stuffed with crab and avocado. I tasted the sushi- it wasn't all that bad- but had to give the cold Shrimp to Melanie- I just can't do the texture! Bleh.
She had steak and I had chicken for dinner with rice and mixed vegetables- followed by delicious Ice cream sundaes!!
After dinner, we fell asleep, and I woke up to the sound of Tinking dishes. They had served breakfast, and I looked and we only had 58 minutes of our 8 hour and 52 minute plane ride left. I woke Melanie up and we asked for our breakfast. We got Quiche, sausage, egg and cheese omelettes, mixed fruit, yogurt and a croissant with some amazing straberry jam. It was delicious.
After we ate, we got ready to land in Tokya/Narita. We landed at 2:06 pm on Saturday- Japan time. Which meant it was close to Midnight Utah time. Once we were off the plane, we had to go through yet ANOTHER security check, where Melanie had to keep the medicine out and hand check it- yet again. This time was the easiest of all our attempts and they didn't tear anything too terribly We found a kiosk and our gate was #57. We had to walk quite a ways to get to it, and we had to pass all the high end shopping centers, in the airport to get out. they were funny. There were ceramic cats and odd shaped confections in boxes.
We passed a lady handing out samples of whiskey to the general public on the way to our gate. I remember thinking "That would never happen in the States." Once we found our Gate, Melanie walked around trying to find the Lounge, and ended up runninng into our 2 friends from SLC. They had survived their flight and were headed to find their connection also. We both found the Wifi and sent out some E-mails to let people know we were alive and Melanie took a quick nap while I went in the bathroom and washed my face and hands and tried to become presentable after our very very long flight.
It was interesting because they had stalls for Bidet's and stalls for regular toilets. I had to remember when I brushed my teeth that I couldn't use tap water. We had to go and exchange some $$ for euro's and buy a water so I could brush my teeth.
We boarded our flight at 17:25 and were supposed to fly outo at 17:50 but were delayed for almost 30-45 Minutes because of a "foreign object" on the runway. I honestly didn't even notice because I dozed off, but Melanie woke me up when we actually took off. These seats-although amazing- were not as big as the flight from San Fran. to Tokyo. We still got to recline and nap most of the way though. We woke up long enough to eat dinner. They served us an Amuse Buche' that was super interesting. There were 4 petite servings of: Mozzarella Ball and Olives, a Mini Lemon muffin, Some Sushi of some kind with Caviarre sprinkled on top and some Tofu/brown sauce/Edomame thing that I tasted and immediately wished I hadn't.
We landed at 11:35pm Saturday nigiht in Bangkok Thailand. We {slowly} got off the plane, and walked off the ramp and the Humidity just stuck to us. It was incredible. As we entered the Terminal there was a little guy in a bright blue coat jacket and white pants with pointy white shoes named "Top" holding a piece of paper with our names on them. He worked for the airport and escorted us through Immigration and the baggage claim, then Customs and finally took us out to the curb where the hotel car was waiting for us.
We rode for about 45 minutes up a well lit interstate, there were billboards the size of football fields and Buddist Shrines and beautiful temples everywhere. There were also nasty boarded up Shanties and abandoned farm houses and beautiful sky scrapers. There was so much contrast in one square block, it was just....amazing.
We got to the Intercontinental Hotel, and they escorted us up to our room and checked us in. They even brought our bags up for us. We were being spoiled, and it was so cute. Eric had made all the little arrangements to make things super easy on us, and after our long 2 day journey- it was fantastic!
We got unpacked and showered and tried to sleep. It was hard since it still felt like 12 noon to our bodies, but we managed.
Somehow all the sleeping we did on the plane rides didn't feel very restful- but it was fortunate!
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