Our trip home involved almost 27 hours of travel. A bit after 10AM, David carried us to the bullet train station, about 20 minutes. Bre had one last rice ball, and we only had about a 15 min wait to board our train for Shinagawa. I tracked our movements on my GPS, and we got off the train right on sched. Fortunately, our baggage was much less on our return home, having dropped off a lot of USA-items at Davey’s. The walk to the exit of the Shinagawa train station was pretty long. We saw the queue for the taxi and took about a 20-min trip to Terminal 3 for 5.6k yen. We had a little trouble checking our 19-Kg suitcase, but we got it checked and had a leisurely trip through security to our gate. We spent our last few yen on a sandwich and 4 donuts and a soft serve ice cream. Once again, the service on ANA was excellent and the trip time passed unusually quickly as we slept some unknown amount.
Customs was pretty relaxed in Seattle, with no forms to fill out and not even a question about what we were bringing in. We flew Seattle to Denver, and had a long walk from Gate B6 to B67. We landed about 10 min early in BHM and Bre’s carry-on, which we checked in Seattle, along with mine, was the second bag delivered. Our other two came promptly and we had only a short wait before Andrew picked us up.
We made it into bed a bit after 11PM (1 PM Thursday in Japan). We “slept” until 1030AM Wed.—later than we can recall sleeping. My fitbit recorded less than 4 hours of total sleep from the plane and our bed combined. But, we are thrilled at the success of our trip. Thanks again for praying.
(This photo of us on the Shinkansen--bullet train is from our trip to David's, but is the only one we got.)
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