Spring Break: Universal Studios (The adventure Home)

We left the Park with plenty of time to get to the Shin station.  We managed to get on all the correct trains to get us there, which was nice.  We arrived to the Shin station in plenty of time.  The kids slept a bit on the ride.  We got on the 9:32pm Shin.

Getting a little zonked on the local train.

There was a 10 minute wait to get on as it was closed for cleaning. 

 It was right about this time that we realized this was the last train of the night and it stopped at... Hiroshima.  It did not continue past Hiroshima. We knew that trains stopped around midnight, but had assumed if they sold us freaking tickets to Iwakuni that they would have made sure we got there the same night.  Nope.  No other Shin was leaving to go to Iwakuni till morning.  Gulp!  Our train pulled in to Hiroshima at 11:44pm and was done for the night.  When showed the conductor our tickets from Hiroshima to Iwakuni he said, "First train at morning".  Not helpful.  He suggested the 12:08am local JR train.

Our problem was that the van was parked out at Shin Iwakuni.  We did take the local train home (1 hour vs the 10 minutes on the Shin), and we arrived at 1am to the Iwakuni  JR train station (which is NOT the Shin Iwakuni statin.  That is 30 minutes away).  My darling friend Hope had texted to see if we needed a ride home.  We did.

I took 3 kids and grabbed a cab ($14).  Hope took 4 others and dropped them off at home.  Then she went back and picked up Dan and took him all the way out to the Shin station to collect the van.... at 1:30am!  I love her!  So it was a very veery late night for all!