August 12th

The day that was 39 hours.

Today was started with a late start, at least for me Glenna and Laura who were rooming with me. We then packed up and grabbed some breakfast from the 7/11. At 11:45 we went downstairs to get checked out, and since we had some time before our bus arrived, we wandered around the park until we got on the bus. We then began our two hour ride to the airport.

Once we made it to the airport we got our boarding passes, except me and Haley. So we went up to the counter to get them, but our tags on our checked-in baggage caused a problem because it was on Grace's name, who is in our group. So there was that whole mishap where the names didn't match, and then Haley and I find out why we didn't get our boarding passes. Apparently the two of us were randomly selected for extra security at the gate. The two of us were somewhat upset, and it freaked me out, because one security is scary enough. We then grabbed some lunch (at around 5pm).

Once we got to the gate we were pat down, shoes were pat down, and bags were looked through, and we were done. The plane ride was about 12 hours. A lot of us tried to coordinate watching the Assassination Classroom live action and we came pretty close, it took us awhile though. Most of us were awake the entire time. The airplane also fed dinner and breakfast.

We then got off the plane and began the walk around LAX to find our gate. Luckily, this time it was easier to get to our gate, we had to walk down a sidewalk for twenty minutes before we actually got to the check-in counter. Then we went through TSA and found our gate and more food.

This next flight is two hours from LAX-DEN. It was a relatively quick flight, we then had to go through customs and immigration, but that was easy enough. After that, we got on the shuttle to go to baggage claim. After riding the trains and subways in Japan, we were experts at the whole balancing in a moving train thing.

We went up the escalators and were greeted by our families. It was also pretty surprising. We got flowers, and balloons, and then we split our ways to baggage claim.

We said our goodbyes, and that was the end of our trip to Japan.