Monday, August 03, 2009

Flight to Tokyo

Here are a "few" photos of our blessedly uneventful flight to Japan.

At this point Zander was telling everyone what happened the LAST time we were going to fly, and the rest of us were commenting that we'd made it further than we had in the past. LOL
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Zander played very nicely and quietly....but this gentlemen was NOT happy to be sitting next to Stacia, Zander and I.....
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This is Zander's new "Pathetic, pitiful, innoncent" look.
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Jared wore the hat the boys gave him all the way to Misawa...and he was a sight. There was no other way to safely get the hat to Japan. ::snort::
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You can't see all the sign but it says, "Yokoso Japan" - Welcome to Japan.
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Customs took a long time for several reasons. The flight attendants had told me I didn't have to fill out a sheet of paper. I needed to have one for each of us. Then I didn't fill out the back. Then Stacia had to go to the rest room - because she'd refused all day long because of the "strange" toilets. We finally made it through Customs.
Again, I cannot express what a blessing Kim, Jun and Ryu were to us. It was SUCH a relief to see a face waiting on the other side of customs.
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Tired travelers on the way from Narita to our hotel.Photobucket


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6 comments:

Cynthia said...

I can only imagine how incredibly relieved you must have been to recognize a face after going through customs. That is AWESOME that they were able to meet you!

Anonymous said...

PTL for the way He works it all out. So who all sat together and how far apart were you all?

l/p Mom T

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Jared, Arielle and Nolan were in about 21 and Stacia, Zander and I were in 37. LOL

Renee said...

a customs form for EACH person? Yikes.... any time we've traveled international one for our family has been sufficient

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

There was one form for FAMILY and another one that was required for EACH person. It was the one for each person that the airline officials thought military would be exempt from - but they aren't. I'm not the only one who had to fill it out for each person. LOL

Yvonne said...

So glad you've arrived!

We've had a computer crash...I'm working from a laptop. I don't have anyone's blog address, email contacts are gone...but I was grateful that I could remember your blog address! Thank you for always being "not2many!"

I've been praying for you and yours...