We got back to our apartment from Khao San around 12:30am... we had three hours to kill until our van was coming to take us to the airport! We all showered and changed into comfortable clothes for our flights and finished packing up of course! I still had some time to kill so I sent some final emails and sorted through some of my pictures. I was surprisingly wide awake and kept myself busy until 3:30. I heard the van pull up to our building so I went and got Tori & Jill and we went to wake Amanda up to say good bye. I’m going to miss her so much... but we have big plans to hang out when she gets back in August and still have a whole school year together!
It was a good thing that there were only three of us, because our luggage filled up almost the entire van! We each had two huge suitcases and two carry-on bags! Once we got everything loaded up we were on our way! It was approximately an hour drive from our apartments to the airport, I was trying SO hard to stay awake but I kept dozing off from time to time. When we got to the airport the check-in booths weren’t open yet so we waited in line for a while until they opened. It was finally my turn to check in, and I was prepared to spend $100 for my overweight luggage. The lady weighed me in and I was over 5 kilograms. I had a pretty big carry-on bag so I took all of my shoes and a few heavier things out of my suitcase and put them in there. I was still over 2 kilograms but I put on a sad face and she let it slide! I was so excited! After we checked in we went to a small restaurant to grab breakfast and then went to our terminal to board the plane.
Jill and I totally lucked out for this flight from Bangkok to Tokyo. We were beside each other and got the seats behind the stewards kitchen so we had a ton of leg room! The flight was 6 hours, I was feeling more and more sick (stuffed up, sore throat, headache) as the day/night progressed, so I slept on and off pretty much the whole time. In addition to being up all night and being sick I took a gravol as soon as we got on the plane so I was knocked right out for a while. Apparently they came around to serve us two meals and I had no idea! With the combination of plugged up sinuses and the differences in pressure when landing, I was in so much pain while we landed. Thankfully it didn’t last too long but it really sucked at the time!
When we landed in Tokyo around 4:30pm we had to go straight to our connecting flight which left at 5:10pm (Tokyo time). Unfortunately we didn’t luck out with our seating arrangements this time. For some reason, Jill’s seat was way up in front of us. Tori and AJ were beside each other and I was beside/behind them. We asked the man sitting beside Jill if he would trade with me but he refused, so I asked a girl sitting beside me if she would trade and she didn’t mind at all! I helped her move her bags over to where Jill was sitting and we moved Jill over to where I was sitting. Two minutes later the girl came back and said that man that had refused to sit with me was being difficult and trying to make her switch seats with him now! How RUDE! He made her feel very uncomfortable, so Jill went back to her seat and the other girl came back and sat beside me. It wasn’t a huge deal, our seats weren’t bad, it was just that Jill and I had bought food together on the plane and not sitting together or even remotely close to each other made it pretty hard. There was a man with his little boy (who was maybe 1 ½) sitting a little bit in front of me, and they were sharing a seat. I’m sure it’s a lot cheaper to book flights that way but I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it would be for an 8½ hour flight. I have trouble staying comfortable on long flights, never mind with a child sitting on you the whole time. I felt sorry for the kid too, he was very well behaved but of course he was squirming and fussing for a while... who could ever expect a child to sit still for that long?! Thankfully there were cartoons on the airplane TVs, but still... yikes!
We were served supper at 6:30pm Tokyo time, which I think is 4:30pm Bangkok time, so 4:30am MB time? I was so confused, I just ate when the food came and called it supper! Lol. After supper I alternated between watching Desperate Housewives and Glee and sleeping. I had a much harder time sleeping on this flight. I would doze off but wake up after fifteen minutes. I did get a little bit of sleep but not as much as I’d hoped. At 10:30am BC time we were served breakfast... this meal made sense. This is when I decided to change my clocks to BC times and forget about Bangkok and MB so I wouldn’t be so confused! After breakfast we only had approximately 45 minutes left, so I packed my things up and read for the remainder of the flight. I was in a lot of pain during the landing again, it was even worse than the last time. Note to self, if at all possible... do not fly when you have a cold!
We were all so surprised and happy about how quickly our flights went by. We had almost been travelling for 24 hours and it did not feel like it at all! When we landed in Vancouver we had to go through customs. Jill & I didn’t have any trouble, but Tori and AJ went through the computer check-in booths and got interrogated but still made it through. After we went through customs we had to pick up our bags, which were thankfully all there. We loaded everything up and said our goodbyes and the girls went one way to their connecting flight and I went the other way out of the airport! It was very bittersweet... I was excited to be back in Canada and staying in BC for a while, but I was sad to say bye to them. After all, we had just spent every day of the past 7 weeks together!
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