konnichiha from Japan!

Alright everyone, I have finally made it. Left my house at 4AM on June 12th, and have arrived at hotel at 8:30PM on June 13th...whoo! BTW, I am 16 hours ahead of you, so while my day si ending, you are halfway through yours.
To begin with, I was not alone in my travels. Turns out there were a few of us Oregonians traveling to Japan on the same day. I traveled with a girl named Jenni:

A boy named Nick:

And another boy named seth who is actually in the hotel room right next to me here at the New Sanno Hotel.

So anyways, we got onto our 7AM commuter flight to Vancouver and then proceeded to sit in Vancouver to six hours. Let me tell you, Canada isn't that exciting after six hours. In fact, it is almost rather boring.

then we boarded another flight and 9 and a half hours later, we found ourselves in Tokyo. It was cool because each person had their own individual screen in front of them so they could watch anything that they wanted to, which came in rather handy for the nine hours.

So here is my hotel room:


and here is my roommate Megan:


She's pretty awesome and she even knows a little bit of Japanese.

So here is weird fact number 1 about Tokyo. In Oregon, you are a weirdo if you use an umbrella when its raining. In Tokyo, you are a weirdo if you DONT use an umbrella when its even misting outside. There are umbrellas at every convenience store, and they have special bags to put your umbrella in when you take them inside. I got one purely to fit in.

More later. So far, its just a HUGE city that is super full of culture and things that I can't read.