After chatting with our daughter last night, and another email from her this morning, we are challenged to reduce our luggage by one checked bag (we have 3) and one carry on (also 3 right now). It seems that although we were way below the US standards of 2 checked bags of up to 70 pounds EACH, the requirements there are much stricter, and they only allow for one checked bag each, and only one carry on each, and not to exceed about 40 lbs.
So, again, we will unpack, repack, and see what we can come up with.
Mark thinks that he'd rather just pay for the additional weight/bags, but the kids seem unsure if they would even allow for it....so this will take some discernment on our part!
OH, and we woke up to about 3 inches of snow on the ground here....SURPRISE!! It wasn't even in the forecast!! OH well...it's one way to make sure that I stay inside today to get this stuff packed up! sigh....
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Sunday, 3/2/2008
This is going to be my last post from J's house. We are starting to pack up and get things ready to go, as we'll leave from here tomorrow early afternoon...rent the same taxi bus to the airport, and then fly back to G....try to find a hotel, and then leave for Japan in the morning on Tuesday for the LONG flight back home.
Today we had a great meeting and lunch with a group of friends of theirs, a blend of students and teachers. They are a really neat group of people, from many different places, and have been here for different lengths of time, so it was fun to meet them all and hear their stories.
After lunch we went to go to the minority store in HX, but it was closed, so we walked back to the campus and then took some photos in the park on campus, then went and got ice cream bars (yum) and headed back to the apt. It's been SO warm, in the 60's each day, so none of us wanted to stay indoors (where it's colder!) and we wanted to enjoy the sunshine. :)
J1 is feeling a bit better, and I'm feeling a bit worse. sigh. I'll sneak some of her meds for the trip home. Nothing worse than flying with a head cold....ugh.
Mark and J1 are spending the afternoon figuring out sudoku puzzles :) together, and J2 is working on the details of sending his computer in for service work (which we'll handle for him in the states). We're all winding down, and I'm not sure what dinner will be tonight...where we'll walk to for our last dinner in town.
The kids have a meeting in the morning on campus for the start of their classes, and Mark and I will finalize the packing up then. After a quick bite of lunch, we'll pile back into the taxi van and head out....it seems like yesterday that we were piling into it for the first time to come to their town.....it's gone by so fast.
All in all, it's been amazing. I'll work on a few posts, top 10's and final thoughts while we are flying home....and will post them once we are home again.
Thanks for coming on this journey with us!!
.....marina....
Today we had a great meeting and lunch with a group of friends of theirs, a blend of students and teachers. They are a really neat group of people, from many different places, and have been here for different lengths of time, so it was fun to meet them all and hear their stories.
After lunch we went to go to the minority store in HX, but it was closed, so we walked back to the campus and then took some photos in the park on campus, then went and got ice cream bars (yum) and headed back to the apt. It's been SO warm, in the 60's each day, so none of us wanted to stay indoors (where it's colder!) and we wanted to enjoy the sunshine. :)
J1 is feeling a bit better, and I'm feeling a bit worse. sigh. I'll sneak some of her meds for the trip home. Nothing worse than flying with a head cold....ugh.
Mark and J1 are spending the afternoon figuring out sudoku puzzles :) together, and J2 is working on the details of sending his computer in for service work (which we'll handle for him in the states). We're all winding down, and I'm not sure what dinner will be tonight...where we'll walk to for our last dinner in town.
The kids have a meeting in the morning on campus for the start of their classes, and Mark and I will finalize the packing up then. After a quick bite of lunch, we'll pile back into the taxi van and head out....it seems like yesterday that we were piling into it for the first time to come to their town.....it's gone by so fast.
All in all, it's been amazing. I'll work on a few posts, top 10's and final thoughts while we are flying home....and will post them once we are home again.
Thanks for coming on this journey with us!!
.....marina....
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