I'm home! Well, at work.

[cjsmith]

I'm back in California, sitting at my desk at work. My kitties were very, very glad to see me when I got home. I felt like such a traitor turning right around and going to work!

My watch says I leave Tokyo in a little less than five hours. At exactly this time on exactly this day, I was in the Saibu department store admiring some $1700 kittens. Or maybe I was on the roof. Soon I'll get on a train to the hotel, pick up my luggage, get on a train to Shinagawa, pick up the Narita Express and ride that for an hour, then stand in the checked-luggage-inspection line for well over an hour and then the line to actually check luggage and after that I'll start the 20 minute walk to the gate and just make my plane. Then I'll have a nine-hour somewhat-turbulent flight. Odd how much of this is in my future. Since I'm apparently still in Saibu I'll say that the kittens sure are cute.

I'm in the sniffle-and-cough-only stage. I sure hope that's the last one.

My impressions on returning to the US:
1) My, we have a lot of space per human being! A LOT! Enormous!
2) We need it.

Comments

[firecat]

Ragdoll and chinchilla are breed names. Purebred cats are awfully expensive in the US too, although I don't know if they're up to $1700.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I didn't recognize them so wasn't sure. Maybe the weak dollar has something to do with how expensive they seemed. A hundred and sixty... eight?... thousand yen might translate back to a much more reasonable price when the dollar's stronger.

[firecat]

This web site for a rag doll cattery has some pricing info:
http://www.ragdoll.com/ragnarokcattery.htm

It says that show quality cats can be up to $1700 if you want breeding rights. Or if they're being shipped internationally, there are lots of expensive fees.

(*mild squick*)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I bet these were still fertile. No idea about show quality, of course -- the sign probably talked about that but I didn't understand it.

*sigh*... I saw wild-but-not-truly-feral ones wandering all over the streets, some of 'em very happy for a friendly scritch...