Back home

We came home tonight (Sunday) from Guam. Well, I say "we" but Blaine stayed in Guam for 3 extra days to do a few stories. It was not an easy trip home w/my squirrelly kids: 1.5 hr wait at airport, 3.5 hr flight, then immigration and customs, a 45 min wait for the bus from Narita airport, and a 2 hr bus ride to a hotel near our house.

The funniest moment - though I wasn't laughing at the time - was when Lucinda and Arno started shouting at and smacking each other as I stood at the passport desk at Narita-Tokyo Airport to be fingerprinted and photographed as all visitors are now. I thought for a minute that the immigration officer might decide to send my screaming kids back to Guam!

We had a lovely time - I'll post fotos in the next few days. The only casualty is that we've misplaced/lost Lucinda's treasured blanket, "Bitey", sometime in the past 24 hrs. The hotel doesn't seem to have it, nor the coffee shop from this morning. I'll call the restaurant from our Sat nite dinner tomorrow. This blanket is her oldest, softest pal, and we'll be sad if Bitey is really gone.