1-6-08 On the way to Thailand

Thinking it was enough, we showed up to LAX two hours in advance of our flight to Bangkok. Let's just say that isn't a good idea, and we spent the next hour and fourty five minutes stressed about whether or not we'd make the plane. It takes over two hours to check into your airline! Luckily, after Nathalie was randomly stopped by security for searching, we did, in fact, make the plane and we were off. Amazingly enough, the 12 hour flight over wasn't too bad. I read some, watched some bad immemorable movies, and Nath and I played some Sudoku from the airline magazine.

We had a layover in Tokyo, which was definitely unique. Almost everything was different, from what was sold in the airline shops, to apparently the toilets (Nath said I missed out on seeing the crazy electronic gadets). What was the same? Starbucks of course!

We stayed there for about 3 hours and we were off to Bangkok. We slept a lot on this 7-8 hour leg of the flight and showed up feeling OK even though it was almost 1am local time when we arrived. We bartered the taxi down to half price (still paying to much we found out later) and soon we were asleep in our hostel.