We're up!

Well, after a 3 or 4 hour sleep I was up wide awake this morning at 5:00 a.m.; even after taking a sleeping pill the doctor gave me!  Eddie was still snoozing pretty good, so tonight I may have to try his pills...he took 2 of "something" and it seems to have worked better.  It is my intention to stay up today all day so I will sleep tonight and be on China time from here on out.  We'll see how that goes!!

This morning since I'm dressed and read at 6 a.m. I had some time to get on my blog (which works by the way!...so Danielle I was able to post this myself!  Not sure how long that will last. ) I've added some pictures from the last two days.  They aren't real exciting, but will give you some idea of what's going on.

Leaving at the Nashville Airport...I think the whole big red suitcase of Eddies has power bars, peanut butter, bread, peanuts, etc.  He is really freaked out about the food situation and has already eaten 5 of his power/protein bars!

Waiting to depart...getting the last bit of emails and texts in before the journey!

Enjoying my last treat from America for a while...Godiva Truffles and a Diet Coke with lots of ice!!!  delicious!

Airplane mean #1...shrimp cocktail, salad, roll, bbq chicken w/ cheese grits, and a brownie.  It wasn't bad at all, but you can see from the size of the meal that Eddie was looking around wondering where the 'real food' was stored!!  We were so hungry at this point b/c we had no time for any snacks  since we left home and it was probably around 4 or 5 p.m. when we ate this.  After this meal they served a midnight snack of a cheese sandwich and grapes, then @ breakfast we had eggs, sausage, potatoes.  All on this flight from Detroit to Tokyo.  Then on the Tokyo-Beijing flight we had another small meal like this one.  Obviously since I've discussed the food for a whole paragraph here, you can see that is very important to us!!!!!!!!!!!

Going through inspection.  We made it!!!  This was a very calm and quiet process.  I was expecting chaos in the airport, but it was really nice and orderly.  The Tokyo airport was as well.  It was very clean and "zen" like.  It could have been the time of day we were there (night), but the workers were all very nice and cordial.

The hotel is nice, frankly we are so happy to be here we aren't too choosy!  We've probably already run up a $50 tab on bottled water between us b/c we haven't had time to go to a store yet.  So we're drinking all the water that is in our room.  The beds are a bit hard, but I was expecting that.  There is a nice, deep soaking tub that I was looking forward to getting in this morning.  It felt great after 2 days of travel to soak in warm water!

I'm about to head to breakfast and see if any of our travel mates are there as well.  Eddie got up and just got back in the bed so apparently his pills are still working...

Not sure what all we will do and see today, but I'm sure it will be an adventure!!

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We're up!