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Published: September 1st 2006
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The title of our blog is a phrase that we saw on a girl's purse on the subway. It was a pretty large green plaid bag, and the writing was completely covering one side of it in yellow. I guess it makes sense, but why you would want that on your purse, and what exactly she's looking for I'm not sure...haha.
Our flights were rather uneventful. In a weird coincidence the same group that we shared a table with at Japanese Village was on our flight to Los Angeles. The woman had a wedding dress with her, so they must have been flying somewhere to get married. Funny how things work like that. We ate Burger King in the LA Airport and then caught a bus and transferred to the International Terminal where we witnessed a huge group of janitors protesting. It was amusing, a giant group of janitors all yelling "Justice for Janitors!!" The Singapore Airlines flight was actually about 30 minutes late taking off, but we still arrived ahead of schedule in Tokyo.
The service on SA is amazing. Hot towels before you take off, menus to order your meals from, wine offered at every meal. Before
Awww...
We love you Moms and Dads. <3 lunch was the beverage service, which included a little packet of peanuts. I didn’t know airlines still offered peanuts. Nothing beats eating peanuts on a plane. We both chose the “International” meal, which was some type of seafood salad, steak and scalloped potatoes, a bun, cheese and crackers and…HAGEN DAAZ ICE CREAM for dessert. They come around with mini cartons of chocolate ice cream for everyone. HOW COOL IS THAT?? The dessert for the “light meal” was marble cheesecake, and like the peanuts, nothing beats eating cheesecake on a plane. :P Something I found strange was that on the big main televisions they had a Japanese version of “Sit and Be Fit” playing. They really stress being healthy while you fly, while browsing through movies and video games there are occasional messages that pop up with health tips. Dev watched MI:3 and I watched Akeelah and the Bee and some of Over the Hedge. I think fortunately we were both able to sleep for about 6 hours, which really made the flight seem short.
Finding our way through the Tokyo airport was really easy. We bought tickets with 5 minutes to spare on the Limited Express train (the cheapest
BFF!!
Our bestest buds in the whole world. WE MISS YOU!! A to the mutha f***** K homeboooy... one) and found a seat no problem. The train ride was approx an hour, and we had to get off and change trains once. Tokyo is like Calgary in that it is VERY clean. No cigg butts anywhere, no wrappers or fast food bags. Even in the subway station it was spotless. The directions to the Guesthouse were pretty straightforward, thankfully the map was drawn correctly because street names and building numbers seem useless…if they even exist. The Guesthouse is AWESOME!! For $23 each a night we are very happy. It is exceptionally clean, the rooms have airconditioning (although the settings need to be adjusted by the person at reception, who is only here until 9pm) and the mattresses are that memory foam stuff. Not much room to move around, but we have free wifi (that’s wireless internet to you moms and dads) and when we came in Laguna Beach was playing on the TV. Also we each get a free drink at the bar downstairs for each night we are staying. Bonus!
So we checked in, left our stuff, and headed back out to find a cheap bite to eat. Here is where I think we are going
Hangar Steak and Scalloped Potatoes
This was the best airplane food I've ever eaten! to run into trouble…We can’t read a single sign. Not one! We have NO idea what on earth is being advertised all around us. There is a 7-11 down the street, and not even in there did we recognize anything. So strange. Thankfully we spotted the Golden Arches gleaming from a half block away and were able to point to something on the menu (after me imitating a chicken to ensure the sandwich I pointed to was chicken). Dev had a Shrimp Burger (which he claims is amazing). We definitely aren’t going to survive on eating McDonalds alone. I couldn’t even finish my meal, the chicken definitely tasted…different. Oh the garbage cans are a whole other story too. From what I gather, they sort it into “Burnables” or “Unburnables”. There were about four areas to separate garbage into in the McD’s (one which was a metal basin, I think that was for the ice?) so we helplessly shrugged at a worker who quickly came over and cleared it away. Haha. Everyone is SO NICE here. Big smiles and bows and thank yous. Or do-mo, which I think is thank you in Japanese. On our way back we walked down the
Airport Zen Garden
I'm thinking we'll be seeing a LOT more of these. other side of the street and came across a CHEAP ramen place that is open until 2am. Grr, shoulda gone there instead. It had pictures, and for a bowl of noodle soup and 6 gyoza it was 380 yen (~$3.50). Tomorrow we’ll try that place.
Ok, we need to try and get some sleep, I think tomorrow we are rising early to go check out the Tsukiji Fish Market.
It’s very surreal being here. I can’t say I’ve ever been in a place where I am a visible minority (ok well Harlem doesn’t count…haha). I feel very foreign and lost, I suppose I should get used to that for the next year.
Tomorrow will be our first real taste of what the next year will be like. It will be cool seeing things in the daylight, we were surprised when we exited the airport and it was completely dark outside, at 6:45! Let’s hope the eating part gets easier…
Until next time!!!! Xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Rin (and Dev is sitting next to me, I’m going to have to get him to do some of these entries too…)
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Lindsay
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ahhhh this is exciting to get a play of play of your trip!! love you guys!