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In Sammamish
I got to the airport plenty early to make sure I got my kuroneko-delivered stuff. I ended up using the "oversize" lane to check in so that I could still use a cart to carry everything... all of my "bags" were pretty much exactly 23kg. Whew. So I just had to pay for the third bag, which was really a box of baseball magazines. It woulda been like 35000 yen to ship it, so the 18000 yen to check it as luggage is a bargain, kinda.
I got lunch at Subway only because it was fast and convenient to get to, rather than wandering through Narita with all my stuff. At least I got a chicken katsu sub, so I was getting something Japanese-like. The dude ahead of me in line was hitting on the girl making sandwiches -- it was really kind of blatant and a little odd to me. He was all like "when's your break time?"
Security and customs went really fast and I found myself at the gate at 4pm, an hour before "boarding" time of 5pm for the 5:45 flight. So I plugged in my laptop and started writing a Marinerds entry, without network.
But then the flight got delayed, due to maintenance problems. We boarded at 5:30... and the plane didn't take off until well after 6pm.
The flight itself went pretty quickly. I watched two movies, "The Social Network" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ". Then I worked on logic puzzles (the color-by-numbers sort) for a while and next thing you knew, we were landing and I hadn't slept at all.
Customs and immigration were pretty quick too. Baggage claim was not quick, and I got kinda worried, but all my stuff came out fine in the end.
Mike met me at the top of the stairs as he usually does, and we lugged all my stuff back here. It's cold and rainy and cloudy in Seattle, of course. On the other hand, central heating is an amazing invention.
I'm trying to stay up as "late" as possible, but I think I'm going to crash shortly. If I only nap for 3-4 hours, hopefully I can still actually sleep later tonight...
I got lunch at Subway only because it was fast and convenient to get to, rather than wandering through Narita with all my stuff. At least I got a chicken katsu sub, so I was getting something Japanese-like. The dude ahead of me in line was hitting on the girl making sandwiches -- it was really kind of blatant and a little odd to me. He was all like "when's your break time?"
Security and customs went really fast and I found myself at the gate at 4pm, an hour before "boarding" time of 5pm for the 5:45 flight. So I plugged in my laptop and started writing a Marinerds entry, without network.
But then the flight got delayed, due to maintenance problems. We boarded at 5:30... and the plane didn't take off until well after 6pm.
The flight itself went pretty quickly. I watched two movies, "The Social Network" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ". Then I worked on logic puzzles (the color-by-numbers sort) for a while and next thing you knew, we were landing and I hadn't slept at all.
Customs and immigration were pretty quick too. Baggage claim was not quick, and I got kinda worried, but all my stuff came out fine in the end.
Mike met me at the top of the stairs as he usually does, and we lugged all my stuff back here. It's cold and rainy and cloudy in Seattle, of course. On the other hand, central heating is an amazing invention.
I'm trying to stay up as "late" as possible, but I think I'm going to crash shortly. If I only nap for 3-4 hours, hopefully I can still actually sleep later tonight...
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Welcome back to the US!
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I already miss it there. Sigh.
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