SFO

I have made it to SFO, unfortunetly they couldn't move me to the earlier flight. Bummer. So I get to sit here for three hours and drool at the internets. It's strange hearing mostly English again, and the lady at the security counter flipped out because I am wearing jelly shoes (apparently they are soooooo cool).

Aaaah... there was a crying baby on my flight right next to me. I am so lucky.

heading to the airport

All the booze I'm bringing home is in my carry-on, since last year the Narita airport authorities told me to remove all the glass from my checked luggage. "We don't want your wine to break," they told me. I just hope US Customs doesn't become suspicious at the "clink, clink" sound everytime my bag moves.

Anyway, I'll be at the airport in an hour and in the air in three. I'll see everyone in Oregon soon. Sam will join us next Sunday...

Flights

Greg:
Mon, Jul 24, 2006
Departs 6:00pm, Arrives 2:42pm
US Airways 6842 / 7062
Tokyo, Japan to Portland, OR via SFO

Mon, Aug 14, 2006
Departs 10:17am, Arrives 4:30pm
United Airlines 199
US Airways 6843
Portland, OR to Tokyo, Japan via SFO


Sam:
Sun, Jul 30, 2006
Departs 6:00pm, Arrives 5:20pm
US Airways 6842
United Airlines 6394
Tokyo, Japan to Portland, OR via SFO

Fri, Aug 18, 2006
Departs 8:09am, Arrives 2:15pm
United Airlines 378
US Airways 6841
Portland, OR to Tokyo, Japan via SFO

Trip home details!

Please take note.
July 24th Greg arrives in Portland
July 26th Greg goes to Eugene before dinner time (Read: Dad, Greg will cook for you)
July 28th Greg goes back to Portland
July 29th Greg goes to McMinnville
July 30th Samantha arrives in Portland
July 31st We go to Eugene
August 1st or 2nd Greg maybe in McMinnville; Samantha in Eugene
August 4th Greg and Jonathan go to a concert.
August 5th We go to Portland
August 6th Everybody meets in Portland (Mom, Dad, this includes you!) for Dim Sum and playing around town?
August 7th We stay at Robin + Este's
August 10th We pick Jonathan up for camping
August 13th We drop Jonathan off from camping. We stay in Portland.
August 14th Greg goes home
August 15th Samantha free!
August 16th Samantha free!
August 17th Samantha free!
August 18th Samantha goes home


I have 4 days of free, unplanned time. Please reserve them now.
Also, haircut when I get home? Mommy?

T-8 Working Days

8 school days left before summer break. Statistics like that make Mondays a little easier. So do pictures like this:



I lived in Germany when the World Cup was in Japan, and I've lived in Japan while the cup has been going on in Germany. It's just not fair. I've been here working the whole time while my friends back in Europe have been drunk for a month. But as the above photo suggests, it starts all over again in 4 years time (und natürlich wird Deutschland Weltmeister). Who knows, by then I could have my teaching license, and more importantly, real summer vacations again (teachers have almost the same holidays as the students in Oregon, don't know about the rest of the country). Friends have told me that good drinking is to be had in South Africa (the location of the 2010 finals). A country and a continent I haven't been to yet. We'll see.