Still jet lagged; when we got home yesterday at 2PM or so, Toby managed to stay awake until 10PMish, while I crashed at 4, got up to eat dinner, crashed again, then got up to watch Toby play Assassin’s Creed for a while, then crashed when Toby went to bed. Toby got up about 6AM, while I got up at 8, then we both fell asleep at 1PM and got up at 6ish, and are now still awake at 11PM. So: yeah.
Anyway, a little about the final shrine of our journey. I found out about the Oji Inari shrine when Googling about for things to do. Inari is the god of rice, agriculture, sake, business, and a few other things in Shinto, the Japanese traditional religion, and foxes are the messengers of Inari, so while they’re viewed with suspicion as tricksters in many other aspects of Japanese folklore, they are revered at, and act as guardians for, Inari shrines.
Flight at 9:54; the 9:09 time printed in the boarding passes is actually boarding time. It’s now 8:53 and we’re sitting at the gate waiting.
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Our plane is a little under an hour late to Chicago at the moment, which means instead of a decent 2-hour layover, we get a 1-hour layover to collect our bags, go through Customs, and get to our next flight, one terminal over.
Something tells me we’re probably not making it. Bah.
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- no requirement to take off your shoes
– no one yelling instructions to everyone in line like we’re a group of distracted fourth graders
– and when my belt set off the metal detector, the guy patting me down didn’t feel the need to touch my balls
Compared to the US, it’s civilized.
When the captain kicks it in the ass on the runway, I flash back to the Viper launch sequence from Battlestar Galactica.
Our tickets get us access to the Sakura Lounge at Narita Airport before our flight. Taking advantage of the power points and the free wifi to top up our devices while farting about on the intertubes. One hour before we take off for home!
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Guy standing next to is waiting for the train is doing Tai Chi. I think he’s drunk.
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The various Japanese people carrying large long luggage around the station are lugging instruments, not katana.
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