The Longgg Flight

Well Dan and I started our trip at 530 am here in this pic as we departed from our families in Des Moines. While waiting at the gate in Des Moines we couldnt help but notice this guy (skinny old chinese man who looked a little bit rough) who was yelling into his phone, "whats time, time, time, time, no clock clock, time there" over and over and over until we boarded. One of us kind of joked about the chance of him sitting next to us on the flight. We didnt see him again until we boarded the plane for our 14 hour ride to Tokyo, when we happened to notice that he was sitting right next to me. Shortly then after everybody was told to get off the plane since there was a maintenance problem. About 40 minutes later we reboarded, and the pilot had somehow got our trip of travel slightly altered so the ride only took 12.5 hours. However it was plenty long enough. That interesting guy sitting next to me ended up being friendly and he watched old black and white movies the whole ride. My only complaint about the man would be the minor stench that followed him around, but i survived.. Upon arrival in Tokyo, Dan and I who were in a weird state of mind because of lack of sleep had some McDonalds and then made our way to our gate. Our last flight into Singapore occurred with both Dan and I sleeping most of the 6 hours. A taxi took us to our residence while giving us a little tour of the downtown Singapore, everything built here seems to be a engineering marvel, pictures of these buildings will follow later. We checked in and then walked around the grounds of our residence for a while before hitting the sack at 330ish in the morning.

I woke up to class 4 rapids in my room. It was raining and there was literally a waterfall flowing over the edge of my windows. It was quite a shock, however I had put everything away and so nothing got wet besides the floor. This place seems to know that this could happen and so all the furniture is on rubber stilts, which is good. I got a squeegee and pushed about a inch of water out my door.

Dan and I spent most of the day exploring the city and riding the bus around. I gotta say though these bus drivers are not nearly as friendly as those wonderful bus drivers in ames, IA...