...Our Airman picked us up promptly at 6 AM...
...we sadly said our good-byes at the first airport...Naha...
...through security at the almost deserted airport...still pre-dawn...
...but these cheerful orchids are EVERYWHERE...
...first snack of the day...coffee and a small conbini bag of mixed fruit and nuts...
...cheerful orchids by our gate...
...and in the hallway...
...and along pretty much every window...the work required to keep these must be daunting...we actually saw two different workers with carts full of flowers while we were waiting...they took off wilted flowers and replaced some plants...
...we're flying Solaseed for this first leg of the journey...almost 2000 miles to Tokyo...
...that wasn't our plane though...haha...
...second snack...a bottle of water and a bag of these delicious broad beans...
...finally on board...
...leaving Naha...
...leaving Okinawa...
...out over the ocean...
...they served the signature Okinawa fruit drink...pretty sure it's called shikuwasa...and you can see that my hair already needs to be cut...
...nearing Tokyo...
...part of the airport is on piers...
...in the SUPER DUPER NICE Sky Club...
...this is the BEST one ever...we got awesome window seats for our 5 hour layover...first drink is a Shirley Temple from the bar...
...they even had Vegan Udon...
...I also had a salad...and a focacia with avocado and tomato...everything was delicious...
...we played on the computer and phones for a while...and then these servers came by offering tempura vegetables...and sake...so we sampled those...
...midday...
...afternoon...
...just getting dark...we FaceTimed with the kiddos...Big Sissie told us all about her first day of school...
...finally it was time to board our long-long flight back to America...same goodies on our seat as before...
...leaving Tokyo International Airport...
...taking off...
...out over the piers portion of the airport...
...all of those little lights out on the water are boats...
...champagne was served again right after takeoff...
...and a small snack and water about an hour later...
...and then about another hour later my vegan dinner arrived...
...it smells so delicious...it's a chickpea and veg curry with saffron basmati rice...hummus and a coconut salad...and fresh fruit...it was really really good...
...the moon over the Pacific...and that's our sunrise you can see to the east...crossing the international date line is bewildering...
...then my lunch arrived...again the meals were served in what I consider to be backwards order...breakfast will be right before we arrive...at night...
...it's a cheesey vegan veggie wrap...
...and then after a refreshing 3-4 hour nap...haha...the Man said they came by about every half hour and offered us drinks...but I missed it all...
...breakfast...the last meal of the trip arrived...it's a veggie and vegan cheese sammie...and what I thought was yogurt...and fresh fruit again...
...but it wasn't yogurt...it was a vegan fruit gel...odd for breakfast...good though...
...and finally arrived in Atlanta...through customs...and good to stretch our legs a bit...we've got another 4 hour layover...so we went to the much more crowded Sky Club and grabbed a couple of noisy seats for a few hours...it was really really busy...
...and then we boarded the very last plane for the last leg of the journey home...
I was hoping to see the Fly Delta Jets sign all lit up again like we did when we flew west at night...but you must only see it when you fly west and we're going east...
...leaving Atlanta...and we are so very tired...except for naps on the plane(s) we've been up for 32 hours...luckily it's dark and we can go straight to bed...
~Have a lovely day!
