The journey to the other side of the world.

I knew it was going to be a fun journey when we boarded our plane at 7am to San Francisco. Rachel went ahead and took the middle seat, and then the 400 lbs dude, who obviously wasn't as hygiene conscious as us, and hadn't got up at 3am to shower, took his seat next to Rachel (and half of Rachel's also). Rachel's face was a picture, but never more so than when he would get up and turn around to face the aisle, unidentified parts of his body mass would poke out from under his shirt, and his butt would be inches from Rachel's face. She said she was grossed out, but I don't know ....... if I wasn't there I think she might have gone in for a cheeky bum pinch. We get to San Fran a little early, we had an hour to connect our flight, and everything looks like its going smooth. But my trips never go smooth, so something was wrong. We boarded our first class flight from San Fran to Tokyo. Rachel was like a kid at Christmas, as its not only her first time to Asia, but its her first international first class flight. Our plan was to try and make the most of the full bed, and sleep 10 or so hours out if the 12 on this leg of the journey. Rachel took one look at the drinks menu, along with the a la carte food menu, and suddenly she's does want to sleep anymore. She wants to enjoy what's on offer. So we put our feet up and suck down a few glasses of champagne. We decided to start a movie and try and wind down before we take off. A few more glasses later we get to the end of the movie. Hang on, we haven't even left the gate? We are then told by the captain that the plane is broken, we need a new plane, and by the time that plane gets here, we need a new crew. I think to myself "now it's starting to look like one of my trips". So we disembark the plane and are told to come back in 5 hours. Long story short, we go and grab some seafood (rude not to considering we are in San Fran), a few glasses of wine in the lounge, and head back to the gate. It's was like deja vue. At one point they told us we were looking at staying the night in Tokyo, and fly the next day (putting us a day behind), but then they decided that because most of our flight were also on the Tokyo to Bangkok flight, the flight from Tokyo will get held, and fly 5 hours later (once we all arrive). This is fantastic news. So right now we are on that flight to Bangkok, we have been traveling for 28 hours, and we have 6 more left. We will end up arriving in Bangkok at 4am, so to be positive about this ........ we should definitely beat the crowds to the tourist attractions on day one :-) And the journey begins .......