Andre and Wendy

Time to pack up all our stuff that seems to have grown. We have purchased a bag to put light things in as a carry on and will check both of our suitcases. Mostly we are bringing home treats to eat as souvenirs, it will be fun to go through everything when we get home.

We leave early for the train station and I wait outside watching the cat video about 10 times while Andre goes off on a hunt for knives. He has been looking our entire trip when he sees them being sold but there are just so many options he needs some help. Plus we didn't want to have to carry knives all through Japan. He is off while I sit wilh the luggage, and people and cat 3d watch.

Andre is back with a little bag so he is successful on his hunt. We head off on the train to the airport and arrive early enough that we have lots of time for something to eat before we get on the plane. Ramen it is for our last meal in Japan and again it is really good. In our entire time here we have really only had 1 bad meal and that was curry at a chain restaurant, besides that everything had been good.

I still haven't found a hat or t-shirt for myself, and the airport did not give us any good options. Where we were staying did not have the best shopping, and I refused to pay $40 for a cheap t-shirt that I may only wear a couple of times, so no souvenir shirt or hat for me.

We are now in a hotel in Calgary. The flight was quite good, we had a couple beside us with a 5 month old that was really cute and quite good. The father was beside us and the mother across the aisle, so we didn't have the baby with us too much, he was a cutie. Our flight landed at about noon, took no time to get through customs and we had booked a hotel for the day since we don't fly out until 11PM tonight. Hotels in Calgary are so cheap compared to Vancouver or Toronto airport hotels. We figured after a 9 hour flight a nap in a bed and a shower would be good. This hotel room is easily twice the size of our hotel rooms through most of our trip in Japan, and 2 of our AIRBNBs where pretty close to this size. I do miss having the bidet and warm toilet seat, why did Western countries never adopt this technology?

A fantastic trip comes to an end. We have one more red eye flight to go and then home for a bit. All that planning and it is over, but it will be good to see family and friends again and start planning for the next trip.

This is 7 11 convenience store food section. There also was Lawson and Family mart that had similar selections.

Rice with different stuffing. Great price and delicious.

Egg salad were delicious. Pork cutlet were also consumed and filling. We tried the strawberry ones once, very sweet

Many stops was done here. They even have frozen creme brulee was was very good

This one even had a money exchange at very good rates

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