Shipped

So, just how much DOES it cost to send everything you have accumulated during your time in a foreign country?

About $800.

We sent home 8 boxes via the Japanese Post... the 8 boxes weigh almost exactly (Within half a kilo) what Maia and I weigh combined.

Thus we have sent home 1 Metric us. :D

The next metric us goes home via aircraft (A 777 to be exact. I came over here on a 747 and I'm going home on a 777! I am a happy camper :D)

We have already begun the assembly of our lives in America... it's so surreal, here I sit, still in Japan, making plans for what I will do in less than a month in Texas... I'm plotting a real phone number, calling up my friends to gather up my belongings so I can move them into our new house (Which is already waiting for us). Plotting buying a car, the whole shebang...

I'm even looking to get phones and internet service rigged up so that I won't be without connectivity when I get home...

Meanwhile the rain gently falls on the streets, washing more Cherry Blossoms from the greening trees. The scooters buzz down the narrow road, the tires hissing on the wet pavement. The train goes to the station, the crossing bells chime. The City Hall clock strikes 5 O'clock with it's cute little melody which can be heard all over the town. And I type here on my computer, still in this little wonderland of strange, tiny people, remotely assembling my life in the "real world".

It's so surreal...