Saturday, May 06, 2006

Now it's almost 7

It's almost 7 am and I've been up for about 30 minutes, but awake for about an hour. The next door rice field is being plowed (for rice I think!) but they started about 6 am, right outside our window. For their sake I'm glad they got an early start but I could have used a little more sleep this morning.
We got in pretty late to Marugame last night from Osaka. While were still in Osaka we realized we didn't have our car or house keys anymore. Brandon and Nozomi looked all over their house and we tore apart the luggage, but with no luck. So we set off on the bus (it's more like a nice coach, which luggage storage, lounging seats, foot rests and a bathroom) for home without the keys and without our boss' cell phone number (it's in the currently missing cell phone!) We were assigned the front seats on the bus which was okay most of the time until Joey got Callan laughing so hard he started coughing and that made him throw up all over Joey and himself, which I'm sure most of the bus saw and heard! We were laughing though (along with Callan), surely a coping mechanism because by then it was about 8:30 pm, we had been on the bus about 3 hrs and we still hadn't figured out what to do about our keyless car and house when we got back to Marugame! Luckily I had a package of wipes handy, Callan wore my sweatshirt and we got Joey cleaned off quick. When the bus stopped again to let more people off we pulled out the luggage and grabbed more clothes for Callan and reassured the bus driver that we were okay (and hopefully he understood that our kid wasn't going to do that again!)
We pulled in to Marugame about 9:50 pm with Callan asleep and walked over to the school where our car was parked. After one more thurough check of the luggage, Joey found the hidden key for the school, ran inside and called our boss who happened to be coming home from a trip herself and was only minutes away! She and her husband gave us a ride home and found the spare key to house. Callan and I promptly went to bed. Now we'll have to figure out about a key for the car and how to get it back from the school!
Overall the trip was excellent and didn't end too sour (we're just glad our boss was close by and not an hour or more away from home!) Callan is a great little traveler and hopefully the tractors won't start so early tomorrow!

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