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February 4^th

Fly home day has arrived.  We leave on Wednesday fly a lot and get home on Wednesday but more about that later.  The hotel was spot on with their wake up call at 0330.  Up according to plan with only the most minor details to pack.  Call to the Bellman 0400 and car service at 0430.  Who said that I am part engineer?  But all that planning got us to the airport in time to get checked in and still have time to walk a lot.  Have I told you lately that Terrie is tied to a Fitbit?  No moving walk ways for her.  Or elevators on the ship either.  At least being on the 41^st flour of The Stamford made her ride or I would still be trying to get to my room the first time.  We did find out that there is a race from top to bottom once a year.  That is 75 floors up and down to name the Champion.  Walter we entered your name.

A little time to shop before we board the plane but this is the perfect time to take Terrie shopping as she can’t make up her mind at this early hour.  50 Sing Dollars that need to be spent and nothing of interest.  So they will fly to Japan with us.

Today is fast flying.  A little over 6 hours to do what usually takes 8.  Tail winds are wonderful things.  I think I have set my own person speed record with ground speeds of 650 mph on the first leg.  Little did we know that when we left Norita Japan those tailwinds would be picking up and the ground speed would be 797 mph, which is abnormal.   Woo hoo love the time saved.

We did our last shopping with some off the wall candy Wasabi Kit Kats, Green Tea Kit Kats and some other things that I have no clue what they are.  Nothing like loading up at the end of a long day.

Norita went well as I had one more important adventure to show her.  They have the best beer-pouring machine in the world in the Business Lounge.  Select a beer glass and place in the proper place.  Push start and watch it tilt the glass to the perfect angle, easily pour beer down the side so that there isn’t any foam because at the end it will add the proper foam level by straightening the glasses and dropping a separate tube so that there is the perfect amount of foam on your beer.  All this without any human hand touching and heating the glass.  Perfect pour, perfect head, with ice temperature maintained.  You just have to sit back and marvel at the Japanese talent to build a better machine.  (Secretly I don’t think Terrie is as impressed as I am).

Time for Houston.  Get seated and we have a delay.  Seems a Korean plane is delayed and since we have the extra time we can just wait.  But no delay will bother us today since we have cleared the last checkpoint and are on the plane home.  In 11 hours we will be landing.  So time for a movie or three.  A couple of meals.  A good nap and anything else we can think of to fill these hours.