Tokyo, Saturday, June 26, 2010. — Will is the consummate traveler. We left Nara this morning for 4 hours of train rides and arrived at our hotel at Tokyo station tired and hot. We were thrilled that they remembered us and gave us a fab room with views of the wonderfully bustling streets below. Will declared “after a long day, this is heaven!” We relaxed, cooled off and then in great Will fashion, he told me he was sad he’d wasted an hour on the iPad and he wanted to go out. So we headed for akiba — electric city — two train stops away and wandered the shops looking for just the right electronic gift for Mitchell. But we couldn’t find anything electric, but had fun looking around. We then wandered the shin marunouchi biru, which has many restaurants, and where we had eaten with Rick last year, and found a pasta place that had one table open. We went by like 40 restaurants — all packed on a Saturday night. So we had a nice dinner and are back at the hotel, contemplating the trip home tomorrow. We have really missed Rick, but we can’t wait to being him back here with us!