Back To Wisconsin - Spring Is Here

[icejohn2]

It has been a while since my last post due to my trip back to Asia. I have flown thousands of miles in the past 3 weeks back and forth between US and Asia. And all the hassle in Asian airports for the H1N1 passengers check made the trip even longer to reach almost 35 hours each way. On my way to Asia, it took almost 2 hours after my flight landed at Tokyo-Narita airport to have the fully medical staff on board and take the body temperature of all 300 something passengers. The same process was repeated when I waited at Tokyo for the flight back to US. the same airplane was from US and needed to deplane all the passengers from US first so we could board and head back to US. For the same reason, the flight was delayed 2 hours or so and we completely missed the connection flight when we finally got to Minneapolis. I saw these interesting battery powered toys at the Tokyo airport as shown in the picture. Their head will slowly swing around and sing music.

The real strange thing is that it seems that the rest of the world are treating this H1N1 like the death plague but nobody seems to care back to US. Anyway, it is quite a different scenery to come back to Wisconsin after spending 2 weeks overseas. All the trees have leaves and there are flowers blooming everywhere. Of course, that just means the bad allergy is back and big time of sneezing. There are even lots of new geese hatched and walk around the parking lots. They are really cute until they start to grow up and poop everywhere.It looks that lots of people had a great Memorial Day at Chicago. Too bad that I was adjusting the jet lag and could not go to meet some LJ bloggers that I have communicated on line for a while. Aw, well, maybe next time!

Comments

[westcbear.livejournal.com]

Welcome back home! I think the US and Canada are smart enough to realize that this stupid N1H1 is a weak flu at best.

All the flowers and tree in BC are all blooming at once. Normally they bloom over a period of four months, but since we had such a long winter, all the plants only had three or four weeks to burst into life. And oh man, my allergies are unbelievable.

[icejohn2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Guess we both belong to the pollen allegry club! LOL.

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

Yes, simple precautions, like washing your hands, seem to be keeping it in check. It is still the flu though and can cause havoc amongst certain parts of the population (elderly and those with weak immune systems) so some caution is justified.

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all surprised to hear that about the Japanese airports as they do seem to be hyper sensitive about germs etc. In their defense, it does seem to keep maladies to a minimum though. Glad you are back in the states safe and sound. I don't think I could handle that much flying around.

[icejohn2.livejournal.com]

I am glad that I am back home too, Tommy. I don't want to do this kind of long trip again anytime soon.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Welcome, home!

HUGS!

[icejohn2.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Neil!

[algebear.livejournal.com]

The 35 hour trip sounds tedious! I love spring around here too, but I do get a mild allergic reaction, especially in my eyes (and even more specifically, my tear ducts tend to enlarge).

I also dislike the "droppings" from the oak trees in the spring. They get EVERYWHERE. LOL

[icejohn2.livejournal.com]

Hope that your allergy will go away once you move to Palm Spring! Surely, no more oak trees droppings there! :)

[hidandesu.livejournal.com]

My allergies have been so nasty with the volcanic smog and all the fruit trees in bloom here. Ugh. Oh Okaerinasai, haru ga kimashita yo. Wait a minute, I don't even know if you're Japanese. You could be Chinese or Korean or something else. LOL. I'm a half breed. Half Japanese, half chinese.

[icejohn2.livejournal.com]

That's alright! There is always Google translate! :)