Flight entry back to America!

Compared to the happenings of yesterday to today, today was a whole other story. Just because it was a different story doesn’t mean that it was full of bad luck though. It was actually filled with ok luck or maybe today was just better than expected as a surprise, at the moment I’m not sure but sooner or later I will figure out. My Thursday morning (in Japan time) started out by going to sleep a little after the clock hit 1 am. I got to rest myself from a stressful day from the night before for seven and a half hours. My grandma really wanted us to make it on time to the hotels breakfast before it would end at 9:30 am. Before we went to get breakfast I took my last shower in Japan this summer. I know right, the last one…not a shower that I thought would be the last one but that very last one while in Japan! You must know what the means, I was able to get on the plane (not like yesterday)!! My aunt was very, very generous enough to take a bus to Osaka with my passport. THANK GOODNESS that my grandmothers front door to her apartment was unlocked so that her brother could get inside to retrieve what both my grandma and I had forgotten all about! Thank you so much Auntie Emiko, you are a true-life saver!! Trust me, I know…we were morons not to bring my passport! I completely agree too. My aunt certainly thought that we were morons! At least we both learned a lesson for what not to do next summertime if I come… My grandma and I met up with my aunt at a bus station. I thanked her many times for bringing me back my key to exit out of the country! Before we all had to say goodbye we ate soba for lunch on the fifth floor of the station. I was able to fill my stomach up before my grams and I took the bus to the airport. The bus that we took to the airport had a total of 31 people aboard that is what I heard the driver call out to one his co-workers. Oh and +1 (the bus driver) makes 32 people! When my grandma and I got to airport we went to get my huge big suitcase from the suitcase storage in the airport with our claim ticket. I think my shoulders just about fell off of my body, seriously! I took turns with my shoulder holding a huge bag, which is why. After a man gave us my big bag we went to wait in the UNITED line. The wait wasn’t fast but it also wasn’t long. Once it was our turn we went to a booth that stated the number of 18 over the desk. We got my ticket and filled out some form that had to do with me being an unaccompanied minor. We were grand to go to! Plane ticket, check. Passport, check. Bags checked in, check. Me, check. Wonderful! Then all we had to do was wait until 16:15 to go back to where we checked me in since I would have to go with somebody to my gate. From within the spare time that we had we walked around the airport shops. Grandma bought three postcards for under grand to go to! Plane ticket, check. Passport, check. Bags checked in, check. Me, check. Wonderful! Then all we had to do was wait until 16:15 to go back to where we checked me in since I would have to go with somebody to my gate. From within the spare time that we had we walked around the airport shops. Grandma bought three postcards for under ¥300 that I am going to mail to both family and friends. At four fifteen we went back and followed behind a lady to the airports security check. Right at this very moment that I am writing this I am on my flight back to America! There is also another unaccompanied minor on this same flight who is the same age as I. The differences from the other kid to I are that he is a boy and doesn’t speak any English. When he was talking to the lady that took us through security check on the mini train I understood that he was flying to America to visit his grandmother. OK now back to the moment of the airports security check. Once security check was finished, all three of us took an escalator down to where there were a few lines. We waited in line with both our plane ticket and passport. The purpose of what the people were waiting for in the line was so that whoever was sitting at the desk that they were going to get to was going to stamp your passport with the date that the traveler departed from Japan. After our passports got stamped is when we took the train that would lead us to our plane gate. I didn’t have to wait for more than fifteen minutes before I boarded the plane. I am sitting in row 36 in seat __ right by the window with two others right exactly to my left and eight in the whole row! On my TV screen right in front of me on the top right corner it says that flight time remaining. Right now it reads exactly 7 hours and 27 minutes but I now that it is less because its said that for a while now! In the movie’s category the selections include Arthur, Cars, Catfish, Hanna, Raising Arizona, Source Code, and Thor. I finished watching both Hanna and Raising Arizona (90s) so far. I might watch Arthur and Cars even though I have already seen them but I haven’t seen Cars in a long time. Right now I am listening to the TV’s zune on UNITED (music station.) It contains all sorts of music categories but I keep on switching back and forth from Top Songs in Zune to Contemporary Pop because all of the other categories contain some pretty strange songs. When the airplane was still not that high from the surface and only a few minutes from take-off the view of the ocean from the window was gorgeous! Just gorgeous and amazing! The water was moving in one direction’s from the wind with teeny mellow waves as the shine from the sun reflected off the blue. There were also boats on the sea and thin fog like clouds in the sky above a mountain that was off to the ocean. Sadly I forgot to snap a picture of the beautiful sight but I did happen to of taken one around when the sun looked like it was setting down. The view from the window to my right is pitch black at 7:00 am Colorado time now! I think that the plane ride is half accomplished and half unaccomplished! Woo… oh my sausages, this is crazy!!! I will be in America in about five or less hours after spending about 61 days in Japan!!! Overall my day at the airport was a success with my passport in hand and ticket to go! I had such a magnificent two months of my summer vacation in Japan and thank everybody to whom made my stay so special and full of fun!! I can’t wait until next summer! I should land in SF, Ca around noon and should be in Denver before 17:00! X’s and O’s, Em

PS: Pictures will be pouring in very soon!