Home Safe

I'm home safe in Rockford, Illinois. And a little bit unhappy about it. I miss Japan. It was a really good experience. But, I missed my mommy and my kitties, so I am glad to be home, too. Quite twisted really, that one can never be satisfied with where they are.

The day Brian and I left for Narita Airport we had a train episode. The trains are ridiculously crowded going into the city during rush hour (7AM), so it gets pretty crazy. At Ueno, where we were supposed to get off, there was a huge swarm of people who tripped over Brian's bag and pushed him out of the train with them, and me INTO the mass of people on the train. Doors closed. Yes, I was stuck in the train. I had to go two stops before I could manage to get off and catch a train back to Ueno, where-fortunately-Brian was waiting for me. It was a little frantic, but we successfully got to Narita airport, picked up our bags, caught our plane, and headed to Chicago. The flight was long, 11 and a half hours. Pretty quick for a Japan to States flight, but long none the less. I watched a few movies and slept. It wasn't so horrible. I had practice after my 12 hour train rides, haha.

Customs was inefficient and annoying as expected. I hated coming back to the inefficiency and rudeness of the states. I miss everyone being nice all the time. Customs took over an hour, as only one person was working for the citizens side (3 on the visitors.)

Brian and I grabbed lunch at some little shop and lugged my bags to by bus/shuttle center two terminals away. We managed to drop of his bags for his next flight to Baltimore. That was great. I took the bus home. He took his plane home. A long day of traveling.

So I'm back. Meaning this is the end of this blog.
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, everyone. I will post a link for the rest of the uploaded pictures as soon as they are up. It's 5 gigs, it could take a little bit of time.

Thanks again!