Thursday, July 26, 2007

Safe at Home

An hour and a half ride to the airport, an eleven and a half hour flight, two hour bus ride to Tokyo and a 15 minute taxi ride to our apartment. At the end of it all is home, sweet home. By far the worst leg of the journey is the vomit-inducing ride from Narita airport into Tokyo. Ask anybody who has made the trip, they'll concur. Not exactly sure why that is, maybe after an eleven hour flight you are just ready to be done, maybe it's the stop and go traffic going into the big city or any number of things that conspire to make that part so difficult. At any rate, not so fun but over with for this trip anyway.

So now I sit at 4 in the morning updating my blog. The kids and I are up, have been for about 30 minutes but awake for much longer. I anticipate a few more mornings like this before we get adjusted back to Tokyo time. Probably more for me than for the kids though. I did make them say they'll take a nap this afternoon though but it remains to be seen if that really happens. I'm sure I'll be able to nap, not so sure about them.

I was hoping to take advantage of waking so early and get out for an early morning run before the heat of the day gets too bad. No such luck. Already 79 degrees with 83% humidity. Yuck.

Second thing Cole did when we got home (after hugging mommy) was to go find his baseball glove. He seems to have been inspired by watching his cousin Mac play a baseball tournament when we were in SD. I'm sure we'll be out playing catch later today.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad you made it home. I am right with you on the vomit-inducing bus ride, as you and my trusty ziploc baggie know.
Get used to the humidity, it isn't going to get any better. you will be sucking air on your climb up Mt. Fuji, so you better start training. :)

Bill G said...

Welcome back! Guess your blog post answers my question about when you were heading back to TYO. I have to agree with your assessment of the bus ride from the airport...