It’s been a long time between posts…but this trip warrants a blog…

About 1230 in the morning, Michael, Leila and I boarded a plane for Hong Kong….we got a little bit of interrupted sleep on the way and landed on time. After a couple hours we boarded the plane to Tokyo. A movie and a couple drinks later we landed. We power walked to immigration to get ahead of as many people as possible. It was a good thing too, as it meant we only had to wait about 15 minutes. 5 minutes later the line behind us was over twice as long!

Once we had our bags we caught the airport limuousine to Shinjuku, where Kaoru was waiting for us at the Washington hotel. So we checked in and relaxed for 10 minutes, and then it was time for our first night out.

We were quite hungry and it was 545 so we went to a sushi train. As expected it was ab delicious and the 4 of us ate for <au$40, including a bottle ok saki! We walked around Shinjuku and had trouble dragging Leila out of Don Quiote… but then we were off to what Kaoru referred to as an “awkward” place – Robot Restaurant! It was an amazing show which included a bento box (not very nice).

After the show we walked back to our hotel. Leila and Kaoru both went to their rooms and Michael and I went for one last drink to wrap up a long and enjoyable day.