Maybe a future home.

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Had to pack to leave our hotel, Fukuoka, and Japan.

Checked out of the room, we checked our bags in the room and went to chase down those cosmetics. Laura ultimately decided to wait until Seoul, as they have more, and less expensive products. Also they have much cheaper post office international parcel services. Like half the price of mailing from Japan.

We also went shopping for a cooler weather jacket so laura doesn't die in the "freezing mainland" weather.

Not settling on anything we got lunch. Curry from one of the national franchises here in Japan Coco Ichi. It was k
Ok, definitely had the mass market taste, but was inexpensive and filling.

We then went to Uni Qlo and got laura a woobie jacket. And by that I mean it is a jacket, that is basically made out of what feels like a woobie.

We went back to the hotel to gather our things and roll to the airport.

The Fukuoka airport was super chill. But the smallest by far, but they had an international terminal that had 10ish gates.

While checking in there was a problem with Laura's passport babe matching the ticket, maybe we mistyped it, or maybe the system messed up her middle name/last name. The Eastar ticketing agents fixed it right up, took a little while. But I made sure we showed with plenty of time for all such inconveniences.

We then spent the rest of our yen change at the duty free, buying mostly odd flavored kit kats.

We boarded the plane and tried to Sleep. It was only an 80 minute flight, and they had to sling duty free cigarettes so there was alot of noise and lights.

When we landed the Korean lady next to us jumped up in her seat. Literally stood in the seat to get her bag out.

When I say landed I mean, the plane touched the ground, and reduced to teach speed, not reached the terminal, not slowed to a crawl while navigating tarmac traffic. Like just touched down.

The flight attendants yelled at her, she was all "no no, it's ok"

Flight attendant was having none of that shit "Maam, this is blocking the aisle" and just picked it up and put it back in the overhead. ***

Seoul is enormous. Much like Tokyo. It took us about an hour to get from the airport to our AirBnB just north downtown.

This place is great. It's a fully furnished brand new apartment. So new there is still plastic film on some of the door hardware.

Very hungry we found a 24 hour fried chicken place. The Koreans have their own take chicken, and it is great.

On the way to the place we went through the fashion shipping district. This shit is wild. It seems as though it is bushels and boxes of clothes that seem to have fallen off of a truck and found their way to the open air and claustrophobic warrens, alleys, and basements. Oh this place was full of people, even at 2300. We will investigate this further.

The restaurant was great, cheap, and had a variety of draft beers. It was everything we needed. I had a pilsner, laura head a nut brown ale, we had wings spicy, and wings garlicy. It was fantastic. The spice was just on the cusp of being too much, but still had an the flavor. The soy-garlic was a perfect compliment. The beer was good too, compared to the light lagers of Japan, getting even close to a craft draft beer was very exciting. We had 2 beers each, and easily 14-15 wings of each the spicy and garlic kinds. And it totaled 44,000 won, so 37usd.

We made our way home, for sleeps.



*** All of this is speculated dialogue, they were speaking Korean, I have no clue what was actually being said