So, for those of you reading this, you may notice a bit of lag time on my entries. That is, they will probably be covering events that happened a few days ago. It will probably be like this until the end of August when I have regular internet access in Shanghai. Until then, my apologies. ------------ So, we left the house at 7am this morning for our 14 hr direct flight to Tokyo Narita. There isn't really any way to describe such a long flight except that it is sort of dream-like. That is, it leaves you absolutely devoid of any real sense of time (especially since it was daylight the entire way), such that 4 hours left seems like "oh, that's all?" I slept for maybe 30 minutes and talked for a bit of
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