Day 0: hikouki

We got here saturday after a 10 hour flight from SFO. Jon and I had both worried extensively about the 11 hour flight to tokyo, but we got in an hour early, which must be why it wasn’t so bad. We had some occasional trouble with toby dropping things under our seats and wanting to steal cups off of other people’s tray tables as we walked the aisles, and being really interested in the emergency exit door handles. But otherwise, it was as easy as spending 11 hours couped up in an airplane can be. Here’s a little breakdown of how toby passed the time: 192 minutes sleeping, 68 minutes trying to sleep but instead grumbling about being too crowded, 118 minutes walking down the aisles and charming the flight attendants, 6 minutes pulling all the tissues out of the holster while getting his diaper changed, 38 minutes playing with the video remote, 32 minutes plugging and unplugging the headphones, 16 minutes actually watching the video screen on the back of the seat, 12 irritating minutes opening and closing the window shade, 35 minutes pretending to blow bubbles with the wand from the empty bubble canister, 13 minutes playing with any of the actual toys that we brought along, and the rest of the time eating and eating and eating. I had imagined we would just have to relocate to japan after the flight because we would want to wait until he was older to board the plane home, but I now think we can make it back. In fact, and maybe this is just me feeling cocky, India here we come!