what a day!

It's 2am here in Tokyo, but I write to say that we just checked into our hotel in Yokohama Japan after one amazing rat race of a day!!!!

Here's how it goes!

We started out at 6am in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia!
Flight leaves late because of back ups in China.  We were in China!
We make it to China to find a lady waiting for us with a great big sign that said:
RODOLFO PEREZ
SARAH DEVORE
and the running started!
To the temperature reading line...
To the immigration line....which we didn't know why we were in....
back around immigration...
up an elevator...
thru security...
and about 1 mile straight down the longest airport corridor I've ever been on!
We get to the plane....so we can wait for 3 more hours on it waiting for lift off!
So, we get to Japan 3 hours delayed (about 11pm)
And ANOTHER great big sharpied sign with my name on it going in circles around the luggage elevator.
Our bags are still in China!

So, we are here with the clothes on our backs and our camera and toothbrushes for the next few days, with our bags arriving back to us when we depart for the States on Saturday!  Perfect timing!  I should feel sad, but it was nice not having to put our backs out looking for our hotel room in the dark tonight!

I do need to give Japan Airlines some well deserved credit!!!  They got totally screwed by China traffic control, and kept their cool providing exemplory service!!!  Many drinks, snacks, movies, the best in air dinner Rodolfo and I have ever had!!  Since the plane got in so late and we missed the last trains, they gave everyone on the flight free bussing to the different areas around!   Including Yokohama!

So all in all, and exciting transportation day of 3 airlines (Southern China, Malaysia Airlines, Japan Airlines), 3 countries! (Malaysia, China, Japan) and 3 days to go before we're home!  YAY!!!!!!!