Columbus to Singapore!

It was a surreal moment on Wednesday when I left the office at 2:30pm, saying goodbye to everyone, and them wishing me good luck and safe travels. As I was walking out to my car it really hit me- I'm going to be in Singapore in 36 hrs! I have been working on this South East Asia launch since October- all the meetings, creating and following up on schedules, more meetings, ordering and sending all the training tools, for months- to a point where this was just something "out there", but not something that was really going to happen. Thursday morning, the alarm went off at 3:45am, and I was up instantly! :-) I was nervous, and anxious, and a little delirious from being up this early. Daniel was a good boyfriend, and got up with me to take me to the airport, which I was very thankful for since it was 0 degrees out, and I didn't want to lug my 3 suitcases and 2 carry ons from my car to the bus, to the terminal (Yes- i know it's a lot of bags- but i'm going to be gone for 19 days and need; training clothes, merchandising clothes, tourism clothes, store opening clothes, and then dress clothes for all the dinners! :-) My flight path was Columbus to Newark, Newark direct to Tokyo, then Tokyo to Singapore. I'm writing this as I sit in Tokyo. The longest flight is over, 14.5hrs. I was able to sleep on and off, but I coulnd't bring my normal sleeping pills because they are not allowed in Singapore, which was sad because the new one I got only knocked me out for 5 hrs, not 9 like my other ones. But overall it was a good flight. Food was good, normal United Int. menu, with steak, ice cream for dessert and good wines. Tokyo is 10hrs ahead, so when I landed it was 1am in Columbus. I'm surprising not tired, I think it is because the sun is out, and it's the afternoon here. I'm trying to get onto their time schedule, so will not sleep till i get to the hotel tonight. I'll end up in Singapore at 1am their time, 1pm in Columbus. 12 Hrs time difference... that is going to cause this be a weird 19 days! When you guys are just getting up at 8-9, I'll be getting into bed! (Hopefully, if all goes well with the store openings). Here are a few pictures from the trip so far. There will be plenty more to come! :-) The last picture was what Tokyo looked like when we were landing.