I've been doing some thinking.

I thought that I would share my thoughts, hey what is a blog for but sharing thoughts and ideas and stuff, well anyway...
I have done some research into how much stuff I can bring back before I pay duty on it.
From what I learned is that for a 7 or more day trip I can bring back $750CAD.(http://www.law-faqs.org/nat/tr-can-02.htm)
So I have done a rough tally and so far on on everything I have bought, minus a few things, this includes Figures, Dolls, Manga, Music and Games. So far my grand total is
143375yen or $1,291.30CAD
Roughly adding everything else(stuff that has no price tag) it's going to be about $1400CAD
Now with the help of Xe.com it looks like I can take 83,394.90yen worth of stuff with me and send the rest back.

Sofie buy herself was 75000yen so that is another about 8355yen.
I had also found a duty rates site but was for some other area, thus not applicable.
But I did also find out that if I bring more than $750CAD of stuff back that I do have to pay duty on it and I can't take the Items with me until I pay.
So if I do bring more, I need to bring a little bit more. Air Canada also offers currency exchange on the plane so I can get some CAD, which I hope it will be enough.
It is not like I am bringing tobacco or Alcohol back.

Another quandary I have been having is that The carrying case I bought for Sofie is to big as a carry on and I can't check her since she is way to valuable to me to do that.
So I have been thinking how to get her back home, I need to gather everything up that I am going to bring on the plane and see how much it weighs and stuff.

Also everyday that I take the train and pass Nishi-nippori I see an interesting vending machine so when I was in Akiba today I decided to take the Yamanote to Nishi-Nippori and see what was up with that Vending machine, and it sold books.
So I bought one(630yen), I was wishing that it was a Manga(which would be cheaper), but it was a book, I wanted to do this for a long time, I wanted to just walk around and take pictures of all the vending machine I pass and also the interesting ones I know about.

Well that is all for my thought for today. Also the internet is starting to really be dicey as of late, where it would the wireless would get really low service, or none...I think that with the others around(and myself) the server is getting a lot of abuse and can't handle the workload. Sometimes I won't connect until I restart my computer.

Well thats all.