Awake: 5:24am Cloudy Overnight @ Nagoya, Japan
6:25am Breakfast….they opened early...we were ready & we take our regular
seats. @ 7:30, I am finished & return to our room to finish packing. Kathy
stays to greet the kids & Mary Jo.
We say our “goodbyes” & “thank yous” to the Café staff for taking such
good care of us during our 10 day stay. We also exchange a few e-mail
addresses before leaving. They were very dedicated & hard workers & they
really enjoyed seeing Matthew each & every day.
Leave the Cypress Gardens Hotel @ 9:42am….a quick 40 min jumbo van ride to
the airport for 7 of us + Matthew. The Footes have a 12:30pm departure to
Narita, then Seattle where they will visit Nick, Eriko & Zack during part
of the day, then continue on their journey to Washington, DC…then
Pittsburgh & a drive back to Indiana, PA. After they check their baggage @
Northwest, we say our goodbyes, wish them a safe & comfortable trip & look
forward to seeing them in PA.
We rode to the airport together to cut costs so now we remaining 5 have 6
hrs to kill before our flight departs for Vancouver, B.C. We find a nice
corner with extra air conditioning & settle in. Zack gets out a deck of
cards & we play hearts for approx 3 hrs….including a bagel break around
2:00pm. 1st game, I lose big time…Kathy wins. 2nd game was better, I come
in 2nd. We check our bags @ Air Canada @ 2:30….go through security &
start touring the duty free shops. Kathy, Katrina, Mary Jo & Zack all buy
some souvenirs. I simply buy a 500 ml bottle of Remy Martin & get a free
Remy Martin pen with the purchase. Now that’s good shopping!
@4:00pm Zack, Katrina, and Kathy buy some chicken & rice to stave off
their hunger pains. Mary Jo snacks on some cheese and crackers.
We are airborne @ 5:15pm. This will be a 9+06 hr flight from Nagoya to
Vancouver. We were delighted to have had our plans work out so well during
our 10 days in Nagoya, so we were content to just relax en route to
Vancouver.
During our Vancouver transition, we say our goodbyes to Zack for now (he
will be flying to Seattle in 4 hrs) then we board our 2 hr flight to San
Francisco. @ San Francisco, we say our goodbyes to Katrina (she will be
flying to Denver in 3 hrs) & we take the hotel shuttle back to the Hampton
Inn, get into our Suzuki & drive to Lodi via the San Mateo bridge route.
It’s Friday…& we get into a lot of traffic. It takes us slightly over 3
hrs to travel the 110 miles to Mary Jo & Ed’s home. Talk with Ed for a few
min (we will see them tomorrow) & do some light grocery shopping @ the
nearby Raley’s, then back to our bus @ 7:15pm. Our home on wheels looks
good…all systems working normal. I call my message service in Anchorage:
Stacy sold our RAV 4 for a good price.
Late dinner: Chicken breast from Raley’s. It’s good to be back.
Lights out: 11:00pm
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