At LAX... again
Well, today we returned to the U.S.
The three of us caught a subway to the Kansai New Airport and checked in. Misato and I had only three bags since we came to Japan with one bag filled with gifts and the intention of leaving it behind for my mother in laws visit to LA in December.
The airport workers asked that Misato and I open two of our three bags. A Homeland Security request they told my wife. We were checked in within a few minutes.
Afterwards we waited for Ross to check in at the JAL counter then went downstairs for a quick meal of soba noodles. Then we departed for our respective gates and said goodbye.
The flight was good. The plane was new and spacious (although I could not get an emergency seat!) but the movies were the same. And we departed on time! Same movies but that was okay.
Later in the flight I was looking over at someone else's monitor as they were watching "Madagascar." I was struck by just how poor the animation was. Not appalling but rather amateurish, as if someone had learned the new trick of "snappy animation" but not how to use it prudently.
Oh well, luckily there is often no correlation between the quality of a movie and the box office... look at how well Episode 3 did! Not the "Madagascar" sucked. It was a bit unnerving to watch it a second time.
I, of course, failed to get any sleep on the flight. We landed without incident but Misato was diverted to a second station to clear up some sort of Green Card issue. Nothing major. I grabbed all of our bags in the meantime just in time to meet her, then we waited for the Fly Away bus back to the valley.
The first thing I was struck by was the wall to wall traffic on the 405 north. Makes one miss a functioning public transportation system.
The three of us caught a subway to the Kansai New Airport and checked in. Misato and I had only three bags since we came to Japan with one bag filled with gifts and the intention of leaving it behind for my mother in laws visit to LA in December.
The airport workers asked that Misato and I open two of our three bags. A Homeland Security request they told my wife. We were checked in within a few minutes.
Afterwards we waited for Ross to check in at the JAL counter then went downstairs for a quick meal of soba noodles. Then we departed for our respective gates and said goodbye.
The flight was good. The plane was new and spacious (although I could not get an emergency seat!) but the movies were the same. And we departed on time! Same movies but that was okay.
Later in the flight I was looking over at someone else's monitor as they were watching "Madagascar." I was struck by just how poor the animation was. Not appalling but rather amateurish, as if someone had learned the new trick of "snappy animation" but not how to use it prudently.
Oh well, luckily there is often no correlation between the quality of a movie and the box office... look at how well Episode 3 did! Not the "Madagascar" sucked. It was a bit unnerving to watch it a second time.
I, of course, failed to get any sleep on the flight. We landed without incident but Misato was diverted to a second station to clear up some sort of Green Card issue. Nothing major. I grabbed all of our bags in the meantime just in time to meet her, then we waited for the Fly Away bus back to the valley.
The first thing I was struck by was the wall to wall traffic on the 405 north. Makes one miss a functioning public transportation system.
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