I arrived after a 12 hour flight from DFW to Narita airport. We were delayed for about a half hour out of DFW to check the engines – just enough to cause several passengers to miss their connections in Tokyo. I think Sunday is not the day to arrive in Tokyo. Waited in line for an hour to get through immigration. Gary and Ravi went right through on Thursday. Took the airport limo to the hotel. That took an hour because Ravi says the traffic is more on the weekend cause of the weekend drivers. During the week they take the train to work and home, but on the weekends they like to drive. Noticed that almost every car, truck, van etc has a the computerized GPS navigators. They must be standard issue here. The hotel is amazing. Very, very nice. The manager sent Gary a bottle of champagne for his birthday. So we had two of the most expensive hamburgers ever with champagne for his birthday dinner in the room. The waiter who brought the hamburgers finished opening our champagne for us – just like at a restaurant. He seemed a little astonished when I thanked him in Japanese. Went to bed – finally! I think it was about 5 a.m. DFW time.
