Not a good picture by any measure, but it has a story. This is the last photo from Japan. Normally we'd take a group photo but once we got inside we discovered we couldn't find Masami's green card. No card = no USA entry. While Masami frantically searched the luggage I frantically searched my dropbox account. Luckily I had a scan of her card from when we received it, so we were able to go. Huge thanks to the ANA Japan staff for going out of their way to help.
This photo is from our connection to Chicago in Beijing China. It's before we realized we had to take a train to another terminal, explain the green card thing again, take another train back to the first terminal, go through security three times and finally board. The layover was almost 3 hours, but we only made it with 20 minutes to spare.
This is the last picture I have from Monday. It's only 14 hours into the trip. Total door to door was 29 hours and 40 minutes. I'm never taking a connection again.