Home Sweet Home

Our flight home seemed faster and more comfortable than our flight into China. Maybe it was the exit seats with extra leg space and convenience to stand up without having to bother someone. We flew out via the same route we flew in, through Seattle-Tokyo and same thing back.

While attempting your connecting flight in Tokyo you must pass through a security point even though you are inside where all the gates are. The first time we had no issues, except that Mike forgot to take his laptop out of bag. Coming back from China they gave me a hard time for not having all my liquid toiletries in "Ziploc" bag. Mind you the inside of my toiletry bag is all clear plastic so you can easily and clearly see everything I carry in there. So I had it all completely open and easily accessible like last time. This time they made me take everything liquid or gel out and put it in a Ziploc bag. Not any other kind of plastic bag it had to be Ziploc TM! We had bought a few perfumes and cologne at the duty free shop in Beijing and we even had to take them all out of their stiff clear plastic boxes and put them in the trusty Ziploc product.

I wonder if Ziploc is the official sponsor of security check points at the airports....



I usually can stay longer in the places I'm travelling, but this time I was really pining for home long before the Olympics were over on Sunday. It might have something to do with this cute little guy. It also felt really good when the customs officer said: "Welcome home!" Never has it been so good to come home.