This is the view from our second storie window, we live in a quiet neighborhood and because we are further from Tokyo this time the air is a lot fresher. This area is also clean as it is mostly new development.

This is a picture of our new apartment and this time we are living on the second floor second from the right. It is certainly no bigger than our last one and this time we have a sleeping loft. If you take away the area of the sleeping loft we are living in about 175 square feet. I always questioned why we needed so much room in Canada.

This is the 747 we flew on from Chicago to Tokyo. It is a 2-tier jet and looks very big from the outside. However, when you are flying economy class there is very little room between the seats and can get very cramped after 13 hours in the air. The flight was a little turbulent at times but we did arrive safely. It was about 3:00pm on Sept. 2oth when we set down and the temperature was 28C. The Westgate staff met us at the airport and got us to our room around 8:00pm. We didn't need any coaxing hitting the sack this night as we had been travelling for about 36 hours.