Is this a plane or a rollercoaster?

We had a three planes to catch today and we decided to make and early start. It was another bluebird day so we were going to get some nice views again.

We managed to get onto an earlier flight to Seattle which gave us more buffer to catch our next flight to Tokyo. I spent most of that buffer trying to find someone to change my assigned seat to an aisle seat but since the plane was configured 2/4/2 I shouldn't have bothered!

We were lucky enough to have the on-demand entertainment system again. I watched three movies this time. Some real classics ;O)

Enter the Dragon and Goodfellas. Also Bee M0vie which was quite good.

This is a photo of Bruce watching Message in a Bottle, some romance thing with Kevin Costner. A strange choice I'm sure you'd agree!

The last half hour of this flight was worth mentioning. Probably the most intense turbulence I've experienced in a plane. Some quite big movements for a sustained period. Bruce was fully breaking out the white knuckles but at least he managed to keep his breakfast down which is more than could be said for a few of our neighbours. The sound of someone dry retching isn't the most pleasant noise! I was starting to feel ill too by the end but I think it might have just been the horrible buttermilk biscuit and egg breakfast. I was happy to get off that plane though!

We had one more flight to catch but unfortunately due to heavy snow all flights in and out of Sapporo got cancelled. This meant we were stuck in Narita for the night. Pretty gutting since we only have a week up there in the first place. But of course it's good too cos that means that there is plenty of snow about!

We are staying in the International Garden Hotel in Narita for the night (out of our own pocket since it's a weather thing rather than an airline thing). Dinner was pot noodle from a mini mart next door to the hotel and then I crashed. A long day.

We only managed to get onto the same 1840 flight tomorrow so I''m not sure what we are going to do all day. We'll have to see what there is to do in Narita...