Trips to Japan

Day 1 – flying out

The flight was long.

10 years ago, flying home was a little easier. Most of the flights from U.S. to Japan took off from the West coast. I liked flying from Seattle or Portland. The flights lasted 9 to 10 hours. Now our flights leave from either Detroit or Minneapolis/St. Paul. The direct flight to Nagoya only comes from Detroit – that’s a 14-hour flight. From the experience, we knew that gets extremely long. This time around, I thought I’d make the trip a little easier by breaking it up a bit. We flew first to Tokyo, then took a connecting flight to Japan. The flight was supposed to take 13 hours. In reality, it took 12 1/2 hours. So that part was pretty good. It still does get long. Not being able to sleep in flight didn’t help me either. And having to take another flight after being so exhausted? It really doesn’t help…

I really wanted to get some sleep in this flight, so I wouldn’t be so friggin’ tired when I got to Japan, knowing having to travel some more there. The first movie started rolling – Music and Lyrics. I didn’t know the movie, I thought I could dismiss it, and get my sleep. Ignoring the movie wasn’t a problem, sleep was. Second movie came around – Freedome Writers. Of course, I couldn’t sleep. But seeing the screen, by the end, I regretted I didn’t watch it. By the time they showed the third and final movie, Happily N’Ever After, I sort of gave up on the idea of getting a sleep, and watched the movie with Evan. It was a perfect, stupid, brainless movie for this tired mind.

After this was over, I set things up so at least Evan could take a short nap. Her claim of being not tired yet could not be proven. As soon as she used my shoulder as her pillow, she zonked out. I wish it was that easy for me. I ended up not getting any real sleep at all…

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