What a trip....

As a sit here to write my next entry, the blow-dryer is on full blast- as I attempt to get my undergarments dry for tomorrow's trip. Well, when I got to the airport this morning at 10am, I thought this is it. I am going to make it to Taipei no problem! WRONG....
My first flight was delayed, by like 30 minutes, which was enough to cut my next flight really close. But I could still make it, if I ran. The first flight is coming on an end, the captain has already told us to "prepare for landing" all of the flight attendants are sitting strapped in. BEEP, Captain says " sorry to let you all know, but since there is a storm in Detroit we will have to circle around for another 25 minutes." At this point I knew there was nothing I could do. So I sat and read my book, "Beyond Duty." Which tells the story of a soldier and his time there and how he still struggles now that he is back. I think Katy should not pick this up!!!!!

Anyhow, back to the story it is 3:30pm when we land. My flight left at 3:35pm. Still I rushed out of the airplane, pushing and yelling excuse me. I already knew where the gate was, thanks to Joe- we had checked the night before just case. But of course it is a long ways away. I checked the departure board it read "boarding." This gave me motivation to continue to run! After 10 minutes to running around, huffing and puffing I MADE into the aircraft. I could tell that people were probably not happy, since at this point it was 3:45pm and the plane should have already taken off! LUCKY for me. I knew I was going to Tokyo.... well not so fast. We sat around, and waited, and waited, finally the captain comes on and says " we have to wait on paperwork before we can depart and we will be arriving late!" Awesome because my next connection was also a short one, less than one hour!!!!!!

The long flight was not too bad. I only got up 3 times to pee- which is pere informed that we may still be able to catch out connections, even though there is a law in Japan that requires anyone connecting in Tokyo to go through security. The plane I was on must have had a lot of people connecting because once we got off the flight there were people everywhere directing us, it organized chaos.

Did I make it? I ran through the hall and this time the departuree board read "FINAL CALL." I DID IT!!!!! But I had a feeling my bags would not make it. I was right. I arrived in Taipei an hour after my group, I went to meet up with them. We were taken to our hotel by two awesome MCU Staff Members, I will keep their names anonymous just to be safe.

The Hotel is gorgeous. It is actually part of the campus. retty amazing for me! I was in the middle isle which I am not particularly fond of, but it worked! Once we landed in Tokyo we w
Sort of like the Reitz Union at UF. Below are some pictures of it for you all to enjoy!

On the picture to the left you can see the things that we got in our bathroom. It was a comb (good one too!), toothbrushes, shampoo, a brand new RAZOR, a shower cap and dental floss, now that is what I call real good service! Since my luggage did not make it, I have used a few of those items and it made me happy to not have to go out and buy some!


Hopefully by tomorrow night I will have great things to tell you all about Taiwan. I plan on getting breakfast at the open market which is right here in front of the MCU building!