Heading Home

  Today was our last day in Tokyo.  We decided to have breakfast at a Ramen place that Suzuki san's husband told us about.  You order your ramen first at a vending machine that gives you a ticket then you go sit in these little individual booths and hand the waitress your ticket.  You don't even see the waitress's face.  In our case we did because she was confused when we didn't understand her.  It was great stuff though.  

  We didn't really have time to do much before we needed to get to the airport which is about two hours away from Tokyo.  Daryl is ready to be home after almost two weeks away.  Everyone was really nice in Japan.  Despite not speaking the language we got around just fine with the help of Google Maps and Japan's massive train and subway system.  We stayed in the Shinjuku area, and the station there was massive.  It was crazy, and the station was intertwined with several department stores.  Tokyo was also very crowded as you can guess, so it will be nice to be back home where it is much less crowded.  It was a great trip, and it was so nice to see my Temple Square sisters!

This was the ramen place.  Unfortunately I forgot my camera's flash.  In the left hand corner the spigot is a water tap.  There was a little button up top to call your waitress.

Here's the delicious ramen.

The taller building in the back is called the Cocoon.  Since it was very distinctive and near our hotel we often looked for it when a little lost.  As long as we headed for the Cocoon we were good.

They love vending machines in Japan.  We once saw eight vending machines in a row, and then more around the corner.  There were vending machines on practically every block.  I've never seen so many in my life.

We got McDonald's at the airport.  This is the Mega Big Mac.

This is the teriyaki burger.

We were always getting so many coins.  I was thankful I carry a coin purse. They don't have one dollar and five dollar bills just coins.  We had to try really hard to spend all our coins.