Narita, again.

Bangkok, 2:46 pm
Tokyo, 4:46 pm
Chicago, 1:46 am

Last layover in Tokyo, one more flight, and I'm home!

My last few days in Bangkok were good, despite being sick. This is right when I caught a cold last year, boo. So I spent part of Monday in bed. Tuesday I hung out with Kraig, saw his house (MAJOR fixer-upper), met his puppies (OMG CUTE PUPPIES), bought a 250 gig external hard drive for 3,000 baht, and ate pizza with him and Anne. I was kinda sneezy and falling apart by the end of the night, which was no fun.

Wednesday, I stayed in bed most of the day. I managed to get showered and dressed, but then I slept all afternoon. And then Amir took me out- ostensibly for dinner. This actually meant copious drinks beforehand and after. It was a fun night, though. And I haven't had that much to drink since Pub Crawl. Miraculously, it made me better. I can't explain that- maybe the alcohol killed the little buggers?

Thursday I packed. Nat and Lea came over, and it was like Christmas day- I gave them all the stuff I couldn't or didn't need to bring back. My fan, my pans, hangers, laundry baskets, most of the books I bought, my speakers, curling iron, towels, all the pepto and imodium pills, the backpack I bought . . . Nat was estatic, it was rather hysterical. :D Then we took that stuff to school, and went to the Esplanade. Had dinner, went to see the new National Treasure movie. Which cracks me up, last night in Thailand I go see a movie that's all about American history. Though the part in England, Nat said it looked like home. Not a bad movie.

I got home at 10:30, finished packing. Couldn't fall asleep at all. And then I woke up BEFORE my alarm at 3am. Was downstairs checking out at 4. Lea came with me to the airport because she had a friend getting in at 7am.

My one suitcase was 37 kilos. OUCH. And I had to pay for it. 12,600 baht. 400-something dollars. On the upside, they let me take my guitar on as a carryon and I didn't have to pay for that, so that's something. But really, I didn't think I bought THAT much stuff!

Now, for the 10.5 hour flight, and I'll be HOME. The sun just set here in Japan, and we're going to chase the sunlight back to the afternoon back home. I'm listening to christmas music as I type this . . .

Boarding in ten minutes. I should get over there.

Hey, I get to be in the same timezone as most of my friends now! What a revolutionary concept!!