Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Bring on the fun....and food!

We're arrived safely in the USA. Our flight experience wasn't the greatest this time, probably the worst we've had so far. It started when we got to the airport and the woman at the ticket counter said, "you don't have an entry stamp to get back into Korea, go to Immigration." The line at immigration was at least 60 people deep, so I put on a puppy face and 4 minutes later a woman helped me and told me I could buy the re-entry stamp once I had gone thru security. So, B and I went thru and found the office. It took almost an hour to get the stamp, and we spent all the Korean Won that we had on us, and by the time we got to our gate, they were boarding. We did meet a guy in immigration who worked in the same small city that we worked last year (I thought he looked familiar). Then, in line for our Tokyo flight, we ran into some Canadian friends who we had met on our Chinese tour.
The ride from Korea to Tokyo was smooth, no problems. We even had individual TVs on the seat in front of us (we didn't really need it for the 2 hour flight though). Our layover in Japan was under 2 hours, so we just hung out there, but when we got on our plane, and settled in for our 11 hour flight, we realized quickly that our seats were in the last row of the plane....66! And, of course that's right by the bathrooms. So there were people coming and going the whole flight. To top it off, there was a young girl in front of us who kept opening the window shades to let the sun in. Not cool when you're trying to sleep!
Luckily we arrived in MN 30 minutes early and breezed thru customs. B's mom picked us up and we're now in Eau Claire WI at her house. We've already met up with B's grandma/pa Hohlfeld and cousin Tasha, and it was great to see them. Tomorrow we're headed to Duluth MN to see H's mom!!

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