Our Departure and Arrival...

Sunday morning we woke up early and finished packing the last of our luggage into the mini-van we rented to haul everything to the airport.  Delta allows 2 checked bags and 2 carry-ons  per person (for free) on their flights to Japan, so we took advantage of it!  Every checked bag was almost exactly 50 pounds. lol

After saying our good-byes to Ryan, we loaded the kids in the van and were on our way.  Our planned route to SFO  was over Hwy 9 and Skyline a beautifully windy road.   I thought we were doing pretty good, I only had to ask Kurt once to slow down a little because I was feeling queasy. Then we heard a noise in the back to found Logan barfing up his breakfast all over him, his carseat, and the van.  I got one whiff and jumped out of the van to barf myself...the joys of pregnancy.  Kurt managed to clean the carseat and Logan's jacket the best he could with the limited wipes we had on hand.  Logan's jeans were a casualty to the event and were left at the scene.

The rest of the drive was fairly uneventful, just a little cold since we drove with the air on and windows down. We decided to have Kurt drop off Logan and I at the terminal with all of the luggage so that we didn't have to haul it all back from the car rental return place.  Great plan, right? at least in theory...  What we forgot was that the rental return was like 5 miles away from the airport and we were already cutting it close due to the barf incident.  Luckily, somehow Logan and I managed to push 2 cart fulls of luggage, an additional carry-on, and backpack through the Delta line.  Kurt arrived as soon as I was almost done checking in.

Next we ran to our terminal and got settled for a few minutes at least.  I grabbed some food, that we ended up carrying onto the plane. After adjusting seat assignments we settled in for our long flight.

After settling in, we noticed that this plane WASN'T equipped with the individual tv/dvd players like our plane in November!  Since Logan had his DS he was fine, but that is how we were planning to entertain Kelsie! Luckily she fell asleep for the first few hours (thank you naptime!).  Then she was entertained by her new mini-pillow pet (Thank you Kathy Rauch!) and Hello Kitty coloring book (Thank you Grandma Smith!).  Smurfs then started playing on the big tv screen...so that helped a little.  We only struggled with her probably the last couple hours of the flight, and she wasn't really that bad.  We just did a few laps around the airplane.

We landed around 5pm on Monday in Japan.  Total flight time was 11 hours and 55 min.  After deboarding, everyone took turns having to go to the bathroom.  Kelsie's turn showed up at the Immigration Desk, where they check your passports and visas to make sure everything is in order and you can come in legally.  I hurried her over the closest bathroom, where she decided to sit down and NOT go to the bathroom, but to test out all of buttons on the toilet (which is like a sophisticated bidet).  Flushing noise fine.  Spray NOT fine.  She soaked the backside of herself including her jacket, AND ME.  :(

We finally made it through immigration, got our luggage, made it through customs, and boarded our bus to the hotel.  Both kids zonked out on the bus. Logan didn't sleep a wink on the plane, so he was totally out of it.