Air travel adventures - Japan edition

Lost (?) at Shin-Chitose

Our flight to Japan was unguided this time around. We also had the addition of my grandmother, who happens to be the slowest person in our family.

The Changi-Narita leg was simple enough. We flew ANA, which had small seats and crappy food, although the attendants were prettier than SIA and Air NZ. xD

Once we got to Narita, we went through immigration with spectacular efficiency, though I can't say the same about my grandma - she stood around just staring at the poor immigration officer who was gesturing madly and trying to communicate with her. How embarrassing...

We arrived at Haneda domestic airport an hour later by bus. The place was a lot more foreigner-friendly compared to last time. People could actually understand English. D:

The security was tighter than Narita too. They had to scan the contents of our water bottles and everything. 

At Shin-Chitose airport in Sapporo, my uncle and his family were waiting for us. We had lunch at an airport restaurant (oysters, crab and sashimi omg) before buying some Hokkaido specialty sweets and stuff. Once all that was done we caught the bus to the ANA hotel in the middle of the city.

D:

Crabzilla on the side of a building near ANA hotel

Air travel adventures

At Wellington airport

My mother and I set off for Singapore on December 6th - only a couple of days after graduation. It was a mess - mum wanted to bring her heavy-ass Gucci handbag because she'd get told off by my uncle if she didn't use it (he bought it for her) but she complained that it was heavy. I told her who cares what he says - if you don't like carrying it because it's heavy, then don't carry it. She carried it, and complained the whole way. I told her so.

Our luggage was overweight by 8kg. We had to remove some frozen meat that mum (of course) wanted to bring. For such a practical person, she is so impractical at times.

Our flight to Auckland left around 9 or 10pm. There was a spare seat in our row, so Potato sat in it. :3

Taken during turbulence heheh...

Auckland airport was meh. Instead of waiting for the inter-terminal bus, mum decided it'd be faster to walk - it was indeed faster, but she had to carry her heavy handbag (which she'd filled with a large box of cherries, no less). When we got to the international terminal we had to wait about 2 hours for the flight. I helped her write a report for one of her student teachers that had to be sent before we flew out.

There wasn't much to do on the flight to Singapore. We sat between two rows of noisy Indians who kept kicking our chairs/reclining their seats. It made it very uncomfortable to do anything. Also, since the flight left at 1am, there wasn't much that I wanted to do beside sleep. Funny though, I went to the bathroom more than usual this time, and every time I went, there would be turbulence as soon as I locked the door. 

Turbulence + Airplane flush = Scary.

One good thing was that this flight had the nicest plane food I've ever had (aside from the soba, omuraisu and Loh Hei from the last trip). There was stir-fried duck with ginger plum sauce for dinner, and egg noodles with steamed fish and black bean sauce for breakfast. 

Again, there was a spare seat in between my mother and I, which was filled by Potato. He didn't wear a safety belt this time though - the little rebel.

We landed at Changi airport Terminal 3 and got lost for a bit while waiting for my aunty to pick us up. My brain didn't function well at 6.30am Singapore time...