We had a nice flight today to arrive at Tokyo after lunch. But let me start at the beginning. We had to get up about 4:45 to get ready to eat breakfast in the hotel dining room that they opened early for us. We all got up and on the bus and started out. We got about 15 min away from the airport when there was a huge huge traffic jam. We stopped stone still and everyone was out of their cars and we all saw our flights quickly leaving without us. However, after about 15 minutes, it broke up and we were able to get on to the airport. We had to get our luggage onto a luggage cart and get through customs and all those things and up to the ticket counter to get our boarding passes. We had asked for a wheelchair and it is just like being at Disney World. Once you get that, they put you to the front of the lines and open special lines for you and those with you. Jim's new brother "Dick" and his wife followed with us too and we quickly got the boarding passes, including the front seats with the leg rooms! So that part was nice. The flight was good-not much bumping and I slept a lot of the way on the 3 1/2 hour flight. Then we got through all the stuff at the end, again with Jim in wheelchair leading the way. We got on our bus and had to wait for a couple of couples who were on a different flight. It's nice that we get United miles for these flights as well. It takes 2 hours from the airport back to the hotel and I felt a bout of motion sickness kicking in about 30 mn into the flight. I was so very glad to get here to the hotel and be able to lie down, even if just briefly.
The hotel is very nice and our room is spacious and full of new discovery things. The one that everyone is talking about is the toilet in our room-we first saw them in the airport rest rooms. They play music, shower you with warm water from the bottom and all sorts of such things. We all agree, it is rather nice!
We are on the 15th floor and it is a great room. we just had a furnished dinner down in the restaurant and it had so much on the buffet plus they fixed me a pasta dish without the garlic and onion. The new Program Director is young and not nearly as detailed at Steven so we all miss him already. But she is trying and I think will do a good job for the couple of days we are here. It is hazy and drizzly here too. It is the rainy season in Japan so we are not expecting to actually see Mt Fuji or anything like that. But it will still be nice to see a little of the area here.
Didn't take photos today so will wait for some tomorrow to post.
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