I believe today was literally the longest day of my life. I was up for over 32 hours on November 5! We actually slept in later than any other day of this vacation, then went for breakfast before returning to the hotel for check-out. We left our bags at reception while we went and purchased food and snacks for our day of travel. Then we took a circuitous route to see the Hiroshima Castle. After retrieving our bags, we began the long journey home. We had to take two multi-hour bullet trains to get from Hiroshima to Tokyo. Then we took a local train, followed by the monorail to the airport. We spent over two hours at the airport before boarding for our 9+ hour flight to Vancouver. Because of the 17 hour time difference, we landed at YVR much earlier in the day than it was when we left Haneda Airport. We took the SkyTrain from Richmond to Vancouver, and on to Burnaby. June picked us up from the station and drove us to see Vecsey. Her eye is completely healed and she looks wonderful. We, of course, walked Vecsey in the park as soon as we could. That still left all evening for visiting, doing laundry, eating dinner, and reflecting upon another sight-filled, whirlwind vacation.
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Florence
11/13/2015 09:30:24 am
Amazing pictures ! I have followed you and Lisa through your journey through Japan and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful scenery , buildings and pictures of you and Lisa ,It is nice reading your diary as well . It must have been fun taking so many different kinds of transportation too. Thanks for sharing it with us,
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Michael Wiebe
11/13/2015 09:38:23 am
Thanks Auntie Florence! We sure saw a lot and were able to cover a lot of ground since Japan is probably better connected via public transportation than any other large country in the world. We're now looking forward to a much more relaxing trip to Oahu with friends at Christmas. :)
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