Another early start this morning. Warren was kind enough to drop us at the train station with our bags to catch the train to the airport. We got to Kichijoji and went to buy our airport express train tickets only to find out there was only standing room available. We had no choice but to take them.
Once we got on the train we were hoping to just snag some seats but the conductor put pay to that. We had to make our way down the train to our assigned carriage and luckily we found a couple of fold down seats in the area between the carriages. It was freezing cold though!
We finally arrived at the airport at 8am after having left Warren and Julie's at 5.30. We checked in and headed to Starbucks to warm ourselves up. Through immigration and I bought a couple of things duty free before we caught the shuttle train to our boarding gate. Unfortunately they couldn't sit us together so we were each on a window seat in rows behind each other. The flight was uneventful but long and I managed to watch a movie and played a truck load of games on the iPod but I couldn't sleep. Ross was out like a light behind me!
Once we landed in KL we soon realised that it was pouring down outside so we decided to catch the train to Sentral and then catch a cab. Although it took ages in the peak hour traffic it was better than walking in the rain. We finally got home 15 hours after we left Warren and Julie's place. It had been a long haul.
I ran a bath while we cleaned up the usual welcome home presents from the cats. After soaking in the bath for a while, we heated up a frozen pizza for dinner, watched some TV and then fell into bed exhausted. It had been a great trip to Japan and so much fun to catch up with good friends again! But it was sure nice to sleep in my own bed. I had managed 5 different beds in 8 days in Japan. Only 24 hours before I head off again to Adelaide!
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