Our flight to Tokyo on Hawaiian Airlines featured the ususal take-off view of Waikiki and Diamond Head. The food and service were great.  Started with prosecco, then went on to Johnny Walker Black, sake and Kirin Beer with a Japanese meal.  Followed by cheesecake, Bailey's and cognac. Saw three films.   Guy Richie's The Covenant , which got 83/98 ratings from  Rotten Tomatoes,  really good move, and  Someone You Loved,  a Korean romance film with a different kind of twist at the end.  Unexpected. The last one was  Contact , but the iPad had to be turned off when the plane approached Haneda Airport, so I missed the last few minutes. However, I turned to Google, and  found this article, which tries to explain what happened .,  Left more questions about the reality, except that Jody Foster playing the role of a Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence (SETI) scientist, possibly went through a  wormhole  and returned back again, for this was recorded in 1's and 0's, but was

We're in the Plumeria Lounge of Hawaiian Airlines. Next stop, Haneda Airport.   It's alway so exciting to anticipate the coming of a global adventure.   Now, I want these trips to be as secure and comfortable as possible.  Thus, we are traveling business class, except for the Bangkok to Dubai to Munich leg being on Emirates first class.   I never asked, but I assume they don't practice Ramadan on their flights and airport lounge. In  2022 we caught an Emirates first class from Bangkok to Duba i.  Unlimited caviar, with showers on the plane.  Fabulous experience.   So we thought we'd double the pleasure.  It is 3000 miles from Bangkok to Dubai, but 3700 miles from Dubai to Munich. And a big plus.   Washington D.C. is reaching peak cherry blossom blooms now.   They said it's due to climate change.  Tokyo and D.C. are very similar in terms of weather.  Certainly, too, our first few days then will feature a surprisingly early Sakura season. So here is our entire around

We spent some time in the Hawaian Airlines Plumeria Lounge, boarded the plane, and waited an hour for no expressed reason.  This was a concern because we wanted to end the day in the Sheraton Yokahama Bay executive lounge, which I thought closed around 8PM.  This delay meant we would arrive at the hotel about 8:30PM. But otherwise, all went well.   Started with ramen, white wine and assorted snacks. Our plane. Formerly, only purple vanda orchids were used.  Now green ones. Away we go. First had macadamia nuts with Johnny Black Label Scotch on rocks.  Ordered a Japanese meal of broiled eggplant with miso, marinated tuna, spinach with sesame sauce, broiled miso chicken, assorted pickles, miso soup and rice.  For dessert, Taro cheesecake with Haupia Poi Sauce.  Kirin Beer and Kasumi Tsuru Kimoto sake. The meal was orchestrated by chefs Wade Ueoka and Michelle Karr-Ueoka, with wines by Chuck Furuya. The flight was 8.5 hours long, almost all at around 39,000 feet elevation, speed of 460 MPH