Typhoon; departure.

Yesterday a Typhoon passed through Tokyo, and by this morning it was completely gone. Nicole wanted to experience the water and wind and ventured out on her own. I, on the other hand, stayed in the hotel where it was plenty dry. The typhoon managed to shut down bullet train service near Osaka (due to a roof from a hotel being blown onto the power lines). And, on the news, they showed footage of some very dumb people walking on a jetty in the middle of the 15 foot waves crashing into the shore, and then getting swept into the sea. Nicole caught in the translation that two of them didn't survive. Ah, natural selection. Even for all of its education systems, even Japan has some dumbasses.

Tomorrow we take a plane from Narita back to Seattle. For those not accustomed to travel around the world, we leave at 3:20pm from here and will get into Seattle at 8:05am on the same day. We lost a day getting here. Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of Seattle.

I've really enjoyed the trip to Tokyo, but I'm ready to go home. I love travelling, but I also really miss the states. It'll be nice to be in a familiar and less crowded place. I'll miss the people-watching here in Tokyo. If there's anything to do here, it's people-watch.

Today Nicole and I walked up to Sunshine 60, the tallest building in Japan (at 60 stories) and had a good peak of the Tokyo skyline. We followed that up with a trip to the aquarium in the same building. An easy day... but we had to go out and by another bag for all of the gifts we're bringing back with us.

I anticipate pictures will be uploaded probably late on Wednesday. Videos might take a little longer.