Those who say "You can't take it with you", didn't see my luggage.

Well I am here - I have been anticipating this trip for so long that it's hard to believe that I am actually sitting in Guam....Wow.

I have to start at the beginning and tell you about the trip.   First I had to get to Atlanta from Halifax on Friday.  I got in to the Atlanta airport (totally hate that place)  around 9:00.  Robbie, Tyler and Daniel came to meet me - I was glad that I got to see them all before I left for Guam.  The next day I headed back to the Atlanta airport (did I mention how much I hate that place?) to head for Guam.  My first flight was to Detroit.  From Detroit I went to Tokyo.  That was the flight from (well you know where).  It was almost 14 hours long.  Make sure you really want to go wherever you are going if you have to be on a plane for that long.  That was a very lonely flight for me - no one to talk to....and on top of that they couldn't get the movies to work.  I was sitting on the aisle with one Japanese man beside me and one across the aisle from me.  Neither spoke English, but every time I looked at them they smiled and bobbed their head to me.  If I got up to let my neighbor out, he would say "Sank you" and smile and bob his head again.  I dozed some but had a fear of making a loud snort or even worse laying my head on Sanku's shoulder.  So I spent a good bit of time plotting how to lock a first class passenger in the bathroom so I could have their recliner......We made it to Tokyo - it was amazing to me that I was looking out the plane's window at Japan - I never dreamed I would be doing that.

I was able to find my gate for the plane to Guam - at this point, I am totally running on adrenaline.  We board the plane and I am on my last leg of my journey - 3 hours and 15 minutes to Guam.  I promptly sat down in my seat and fell SOUND asleep.  There was no fighting it at this point.  If I snored, no one told me so and I didn't wake up with my head on someone's shoulder.   I woke up about 2 hours into the flight to the smell of food.  They served a full meal at 10:00 at night.  For this flight I sat with a Japanese man and his little girl.  I got up to go to the bathroom and they jumped up too.  I figured they didn't want to ask to let me out.  I told the girl that I liked her slippers but she didn't understand - but her father did and told her.  And yes, he said "Sank you".  At the end of the flight, people were in a hurry to get out, and his family got away from him - so I let him go in front of me so he could catch up - he said "Sank you", but then he turned back around and said as best he could - "have a nice trip".  Well I almost cried - I was so tired, but that was about the best welcome to Guam I could have gotten.

I head towards customs.  I start out by getting in the wrong line (remember I have only had two hours of sleep in the last 25 hours at this point - I was standing in the Non US Resident line with all the Japanese......so I try to cut under the line - catch my back pack on it and pull it down (and no I am not making this up- I am surprised they let me in Guam for the commotion I made).  I get in the line for US residents - if I had gotten in that line to begin with, I would have already been headed to the hotel because the only US residents were myself and the flight crew.   I go to get my baggage and grab one of those smart cart thingys - yes I had that much baggage - I have actually never used one of those before and didn't know that you had to pull up on the handle to unlock the brakes - so I struggle to the car rental place huffing and puffing and grunting with my "had to pay extra for the weight" luggage, until I accidentally pull up on the handle bar - a miracle!  Someone totally missed out on $10,000 by not filming me - or I may turn up on Japanese television - who knows......