So why Japan? The main reason is like Kerri's: Why not? Really, though, it probably goes back to the beginning of College. I wanted to take a bunch of different languages, including Italian, German, French and Japanese (I had taken some French in Middle and High School). When I started at the Y, I decided to start with Japanese because I had been watching some Anime (Japanese animated shows. Like cartoons, but more mature sometimes). Well, after 3 semesters of Japanese, I had to stop taking because it wasn't part of the CS major, and I managed to get hit by a car, making it hard to keep taking. Unexpected fallout was a settlement that gave me a bunch of cash, that I immediately portioned some out to go to Japan sometime. I had never traveled anywhere, so "free" money was a perfect chance!
Well, I didn't go during school, then graduated, had no one to go with, Kyle said I cold go with him and Sarah, and then they had a baby. But the money still sat there untouched. Well, I had mentioned this to Kerri, and she was all, "I'll go with you!" and I was all "Yeah, right" and she was "Really!" and got a job to save money and here we are!
Now for more pictures and less talking, hopefully.
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| Stolen from Kerri who stole it from her mom who took it. |
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| "Little" plane wing from my seat. I haven't flown in forever, so my head was plastered to the widow almost the whole time |
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| Kerri's |
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| Took a nap in the sun and had these fun marks afterward |
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| Bright-Sun-Selfie |
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| Our plane finally arrived! It just kept getting bigger and bigger as it came towards us. It was huge! |
The plane was nice, with personal entertainment centers in the back of each seat so you can watch whatever movie you want. Or listen to music, or play little games, or whatever. Which was good because I watched a whole episode of Phineas and Ferb as we had to wait after taxi-ing to the runway, then go ALL THE WAY BACK to the gate because there was some "Hazardous material" that had been loaded without the right paperwork. They took it off and we finally started the 12-hour flight to Japan.
I watched three movies (The Croods was pretty good actually; and Iron Man 1 and 2), napped an hour or three and tried reading a little.
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| On the NEX, Narita Express, to Tokyo. Humidity having fun with my hair. It was like drinking the air! |
We arrived in Tokyo and headed to Shinjuku (largest station in the world, Kerri says?) where our first hotel was. Because of the flight delay, it was pretty late by the time we arrived. Kerri looked up how to get to our hotel, thank goodness, and we only got a little lost when we turned down the wrong road.
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| Our hotel room, complete with Yukatas for pajamas and hanging out in. |
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| Interneting in my Yukata. I'm not addicted, I'm a CS major. There is a difference... >.> |
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| Great face, Kerri. XD |
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| I have never felt so... not-short. :D |
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| Our teeny bathroom, complete with Bidet toilet. Made of plastic, except the sink. Even the floor. It was raised about 6 inches off the ground. |
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| Vending machines outside our hotel. |
It was like 11pm by the time we got to bed, which was about 2pm Utah-time, so we had been up for almost 26 hours, or something (math is hard when you are tired, so I don't remember what we decided. 26 just sounds good to me).
I didn't take many pictures, especially at the beginning, so I will be stealing a lot from Kerri. You can tell which are hers from the Date Stamp on the pic. I am planning on keeping it to one post for each day in Japan, but some places have so few pictures it might have to get combined with another day. Maybe, we'll see.
If you have any advice on how to make the blog better or more interesting, let me know, as this is the first time I have attempted to do anything like this. <3 br="">
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