Tokyo con Bree a la Clara Day 1

I flew down to Tokyo on Monday the 18th with Clara to meet Bree! Whoo hoo! She came in for a visit. I had to take the morning flight out of misawa which put me into Tokyo about 4 hours before bree's plane would even think about landing. That sort of sucked, hanging around Haneda with Clara while she's trying to run away and into people's luggage and baggage carts. It would have been fine except for the shrieking while she was running. I kept telling her all the people in teh airport didn't think she was as cute as I did, but that didn't seem to sink in.

Anyway, Bree got in safe and sound and walked out to meet me abotu an horu afterh er plane landed. We were goign to take the airport limo to the HArdy Barracks, but we missed the shuttle and didn't want to wait around for another 40 minutes for hte next one, so we took the train to Tokyo Station then had a 3000yen cab ride to Hardy Barracks. There was a closer train station but we didn't know that at the time. Clara fell asleep on my lap for literally 2 minutes in teh cab, but she was pretty good for the whole time. MInus the snacks that lay strewn across teh floor of the train we took. Sorry japanese train car clean up person!

Anyway, the first day was jsut travel. She had to sign in at hte front gate and surrender her passport while she was at the Hardy barracks (Which is basically jsut a TLF in the middle of Tokyo and for $40/night it can't be beat! Especially since they had a crib and two rooms connected by the bathroom so we could put clara to sleep and still be up).

Every time she left she was suppossed to sign out her passport again, but we dind't really know that or understand or pay attention becuase we were tired and it was 8 or 9pm by the time we got to the hotel, so we ended up leaving the next morning without getting her passport back and when we came back on that evening and Bree presented her Hardy BArracks visitors pass to the gate guard his face said

"What th?!"

Then he communicated to us that she was suppossed ot turn that pass in and take her passport whenever she leaves, then when she comes back give them teh passport back and take the pass. whatever.

The first picturee ws clara being entertained before takeoff by a guy working on the tarmac. THe second is Clara being entertained by a flight attendant doing her thing. See video below for clara being entertained by lifting the arm rest up and down (occupied the better part of a half hour). The last photo is clara passed out on the bus from Haneda airport to Narita Airport. She was, needless to say, exhausted. But she was a trooper for hte whole trip!