Long ass travel day- landed Tokyo 12/26/22

Up super early to SFO because my anxiety before traveling, thanks mom. All good though, plenty of time for breakfast and champagne to celebrate finally being on vacation. 

The plane was two hours delayed because of communication equipment problems, important things. The plane ascended and about an hour in, my right sinus felt like it was going to explode. I was sick a couple weeks ago but didn’t have any more snot, little did I know I did. The pain was so intense, all I could think about was how can we land this plane in the ocean so my brain doesn’t explode and we get to a lower altitude. It turned into a migraine, I lost feeling in my teeth. Shit got real. I took some meds and took a nap (or passed out in my meditative state) and when I woke up it was gone. Thank baby Jesus because that was going to be a flight from hell. 

Landed Tokyo on time (somehow). Between going through customs, getting our snowboards shipped to Hokkaido (so awesome), getting our train passes, and our wifi, 7-11 sammies and beer for the over hour train ride, at got to the hotel at 9. We were tired but dammit we just got here so let’s eat. We walked around a bit, down some alleys, and found a super small hole in the wall restaurant. Perfect. Waiter said some things to us. No idea what. We just smiled and sat down. We ordered some sushi, chicken hot pot, and beers for $33. Word.