Back to Boston

Off to Tokyo. We got our plane (a 747 filled partly filled with passengers and mostly filled with cargo) and arrived in Tokyo. We headed immediately to Continental to see if we could get out on the 5:40 flight. We got a wonderful counter agent who managed to get us on the flight and we headed to the gate. We took off on a packed 777 for our 11.5-hour flight to Newark. We got into Newark and found that all the early flights were full. Fortunately, our Tokyo agent had wait-listed us for the 7:00 flight and we made it on. Then, we waited on the runway for an hour waiting for some Continental flight attendants to arrive – only to find ourselves behind 21 international flights waiting on the runway. We finally got in to Boston at 10:00 p.m., exhausted, but happy to be home.