So today (Thursday June 30th), at exactly the time it is now (4:45pm), but 16 hours ago – we were in Tokyo boarding a plane for the US. How odd it is to live the same day twice. Does that mean we did some time travel? I think so!
Day started out getting last souveniers for friends and family. Then back to Marriott where we finished watching Tangled and hung out till about 11:40am. We then spent the next 40 minutes at the check out counter trying to use our honeymoon gift card to pay our 72,000 YEN bill ($940 USD). After several tries, managers checking that the balance was indeed high enough, and length phone calls – he told us again that it would not work. So who knows what’s going to happen with that but I ain’t forkin over the cash, that’s for sure. Just another reason to loath Tokyo in my opinion.
It wasn’t all bad – surely we did have a good time there but it just hadn’t been as easy and friendly as Hong Kong and this was just one more thing. Pair that with the fact that Air Canada bumped us a few months back off our flight (no biggie… except… it was to another AIRPORT!) – and then when we get to the airport we were bumped yet again. However, they put us on a direct flight which was nice, though none of the AC perks I SO LOVED on the way to HK.
But alas, we got on the plane, and got into LAX as scheduled for the new flight (yet 7.5 hrs. ahead of our original plan and with not means to get home). Following that was a 3 hour wait for passport check immigration and customs – then sitting on a curb, deciding to spend $50 on a shuttle, and being the last (furthest) to be dropped of over an hour later. We still saved ourselves tons of time and exhaustion and discomfort. Jeff ordered pizza, we got our mail, we layed down and now I am blogging all before my plane even took off from Tokyo (ok kinda) – but seriously before we were supposed to even arrive. So, all is well and I am looking forward to TV catch up and rest. Great trip, though exhausting.
No pix today – Boo on us – but I hope to post nice edited ones tomorrow now that I am home with Lightroom.