The Homestretch

Well, this is it. It's been a long 4 months of hard schoolwork and evil spellcheck, but tomorrow is the last day (spellcheck actually says that 'spellcheck' isn't a word, but refuses to acknowledge that when you go to correct it). I just cooked Zuppa Toscana for my host family again (this time remembering the milk), and Momo devoured four bowls and Tatsuki three. Hideo just left for work, so I've said my goodbyes to him. Now I just have to clean my room, pack my spare clothes for tomorrow, and mail off my last boxes. Then it's off to the airport, and home. And if the current snowfall, which is even being reported here, is any indication, I might be moving from a house with no central heating to a house without power for central heating. But at least my bed has more blankets.
I didn't get to go to Nara after all, because I needed to get the last of the souvenirs and pack. So no deer for me. Maybe next time. I spent all of today lounging in front of the stove/heater playing Pokemon. Whenever a commercial for the 7th season 24 dvd set came on, I turned around before the second beep had time to sound, which got me some weird looks, but I can't not turn around when I hear that. I should be all rested up now for tomorrow. I'll need it too, for a 30+ hour day. And flying East is harder than West, so I might be dead tired by the time I get into Charlotte. On the plus side, at least I'm not in the 1500's, on a ship. Then I really would be dead before I got to Charlotte (not to mention dead already :)
In the time it took to type this, the kids devoured even more of the soup. I'm glad I could give them a good meal before I left.