Last Weekend in Tokyo
Well, this is it. Yesterday Kai and I had a farewell ramen lunch with Fred and his kids. Then we met up with Maria and Eidan for one last hurrah in Akihabara (we bought gifts for friends in the states, and a pair of web cams, so the boys can see Maria while we’re apart) and Ueno Park. Today we’re re-arranging the furniture in the apartment, back to it’s original configuration. Then we’re headed to Kawasaki for the afternoon - I want to see if can get myself a pair of those glittery gold tabi that you can see in my last post!
On Friday we sent the luggage ahead to the airport, via takkyubin, so I don’t have to wrestle with both bags and boys while on the way to the airport. Then tomorrow, Maria is off the Vietnam, and the boys and are I off to Philadelphia! It’s 14 hours to Chicago, then 2 hours to Philly.
Right now I can’t fully describe how I’m feeling about all this. For now I’ll say that it’s been an exhausting, wonderful, fascinating, sleep-deprived, frustrating, sometimes depressing, really amazing roller coaster ride. Essentially, it’s been five months of life in overdrive, in a foreign language, with a lot of cool things to see and do, and in a tiny apartment with a small boy who never took to sleeping through the night.
I have a big backlog of things to write about. So my blog will still have a Japan focus for another month or two.
I’ll try to write a short post after we arrive in Philly, to let you know whether or not I survived the trip 
