The Long Trip Home

The saga of our trip home was as follows...
We left our hotel in Darwin on Sunday afternoon at 3pm local time (which would be 9:30pm Saturday in Portland, just to give you a true concept of the times)It was a short ride to the airport, but this was the only time the shuttle ran, and so we got to the airport at 3.20 to discover that out 6.20pm flight was delayed for several hours. Now Darwin is a small international airport with not many facilities and there was no WiFi and just a bar and a coffee shop, which were all closed by 6:30 and yet our flight was delayed until 9:30 and several others were scheduled to leave after our and some into the early morning hours. Being on a budget carrier Jetstar there was no free meal, just buy on board, even the water is $3. So we made do with the food we had had earlier on in the day. Jetstar also has the most cramped seating I have experienced - so this is the last time I will fly them. We finally arrived in Singapore at midnight Singapore time (4 hour flight) and our next flight out was leaving at 7:30am (be at the airport by 5:30m) So we had this wonderful hotel room at the Crown Plaza at the airport and got to use it for about 4 1/2 hours! The Singapore airport did have some magnificent decorations
Then we flew on United Business from Singapore to Narita and then to Seattle - was able to stretch out and doze some on this leg of the trip, then a couple of hours in Seattle and finally arrived in Portland at noon Monday - that's 38.5 hours - minus the short stop in Singapore. No wonder we are tired.
As we passed through Narita, we spent some time in the United Lounge where they have this wonderful beer machine (now I am not a beer person, but David is and he has not stopped talking about this machine since last year), so this time I took photos. The way it works, is you put your chilled glass on the machine, it tips it back
then fills it, and then returns it to the upright position with just the right amount of froth (edited: David tells me the correct word is head! What do I know about Beer?)