Japan Trip - Day 1

Okay, so the first day was, well, boring. I woke up with the kids for school and started packing the rest of my stuff together. I tried to call you a couple of times, but I couldn't get a hold of you. My oya took me to the airport at the Tom Bradley International Terminal and I waited with them while Maurer made his way to LA. We met up at the Gate and then made our way on to the plane a couple hours later.

The plane ride was *boring.* I swear, I should have slept part of the way, but I just couldn't. I wanted to be up for the entire flight, so I stayed up. I played a bunch of Magic with Maurer, tried watching some DVDs, and ate some very good food. I haven't been on a flight before, but I have to say that the food they served on this flight was amazing. They had salmon, little dishes of fruit, nuts, and even served hot green tea. It was very nice.

Surprisingly, for me at least, I didn't need any dramamine or 

anything like that. I was fine from take off to touchdown. By the way, they're terrified of the swine flu. Everyone was wearing masks and everything. They even had people come on to the plane, practically in biohazard suits, to check up on us. It wasn't at all needed....

So far, we took several trains to get to our hotel (which was, by the way, very tiring), checked in, dropped our stuff off, and then went out to eat. I was very surprised that I was still adept at my Japanese. I was the only one at our table that could speak the language at all, but even I didn't know everything. I definitely could get around on my own.

We went back to the hotel afterwards and crashed. Literally. Ryan laid down on the bed and, in the middle of a conversation, was out. He didn't wake up until 10 minutes later before he realized that he conked out. I went to sleep soon after, and then woke up at 5AM (after going to bed at 11PM). I then realized that I left my toiletries in my big bag (which I shipped to the college). And my sweatshirt (it started raining when I woke up...). Nice day, ne?