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Liz and I arrived in Japan yesterday after our long 13 hour flight, which was made even longer after a 1 and a half hour delay before leaving Detroit. Someone hadn't show up to board the plane and they had to find and remove his luggage. Toward the end of the flight we hit about 2 hrs of pretty bad turbulence. By the time we got to our hotel Liz had been awake for 24 hrs straight. I had dozed on the plane.
We had a little scare today after arriving in downtown Tokyo when we arrived at the apartment building where we had rented a room in for the week. When we got to Rm 303 we found a woman living there. We found a phone, called the rental office, and found they had told us the wrong apartment number. We were in Rm 301. It's a very nice apartment in a good location. About 2:30 Liz and I went out for a 3 hr walk around the neighborhood. We went to a shrine up the street, where they were celebrating their yearly "Throwing of the Beans Festival". The beans frighten away the demons and bring good luck for the year.
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Ginny Well Jim, that's one way of meeting a woman! Great pictures already. Fill us in about the food-hopefully you're not staying with McDonald's Japanese style! Good timing on getting some good luck-hope you caught some beans!!!
Ray W. Hi Jim & Liz Sounds like you have all ready immersed yourselves into the culture. How's the translator working? How's the weather? Snowed here last night and expect more this weekend. さよならと幸運
trich I wish I was with you guys! I hope that you joined in on the food fight aka bean throwing. :D Have an amazing time!
Emily I hope you guys are eating okay there. What kind of food have you been eating? You should take more pics. I want to see what your apartment looks like. Love you both. Miss you. Have fun!