Moved

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Well, Joe arrived this past weekend (permanently), and all of our belongings from Hyogo have been either shipped up to Yokohama or were carried by us on the Shinkansen. We are settling into our apartment and had to make a big Ikea run to finish up outfiting the place. While we used the convenient and not too expensive delivery service for the couch, we had a moment of American-style independence (defiance?) and decided to carry the rest of our purchases home on the subway. This is definitely not the Japanese way. We saw people using the delivery service for as little as two six-pack boxes of wine glasses. We both received strange looks while dragging heavy suitcases up here on the train (travel is another time when most Japanese people use delivery service), but wow did we confuse people with our mass of Ikea goods. Regardless, while we may have been quite the foreigner spectacle, we made it and now have a comfy apartment. Yay!
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