On Our Way

Good morning, world! It is currently 2:10am, and I am still awake. I'd like to be asleep, but it's kind of a bad idea to do that if you're not done packing. Okay, that's not entirely true. I'm pretty much done with packing, but because I didn't start until about 9:30pm, I finished late and missed my chance to nap.

In about an hour, Cinnamon will be awake, and an hour and a half from now, we will be on our way to the Jacksonville airport to catch our flight. We're flying from Jacksonville to Chicago, and from Chicago to Tokyo. That last leg involves a 13 hour flight, so if we don't update our blog to say we're alive and settled in right away, we hope you'll understand. 

Let's put this in perspective. We leave Chicago at 12:03pm Wednesday. By the time we arrive in Tokyo, it will be 4:15pm Thursday (that's local time, of course). From the airport, it's a 90 minute train ride to Shinjuku, where we have to check in and pay our rent for the place where we're staying. That generally takes about half an hour. Then we have to find the place, which hopefully won't take too long. Last time we wandered in the wrong direction for about 45 minutes, but this time we have a very good sense of direction in the city, so it shouldn't be nearly that long (or frustrating). In any case, by the time we get to a place where we can finally lie down on a real bed and sleep, it will probably be close to 7:30pm, so it's very likely we'll just pass out for a good 14 hours or so.

Time to go take care of some last minute business. Next time you hear from us, we'll be on the other side of the world!