Saturday, May 10, 2008

wa-ka-ri-ma-sen

Phew we have made it!

Hi Guys and Mum and Dad :D
I can't speak on Jen's behalf but i have been pretty excited. Everything seems to make me laugh. From the talking escalators to the awesome monorails that take you to bagge claim :D

I'm suffering a little bit of culture shock after having only glanced at the phrase book in the last half hour of the flight. So i have two phrases so far. Konechi-wa and arigato. But so far that's all i have needed.

The flight itself was alright. There weren't too many screaming babies and the guy next to us was from Christchurch and he knows a little about Japan and was able to fill in some of the more obvious gaps in my ignorance.

I watched two movies, some flight of the conchords, played a few games and ate some of the fine inflight cuisine.

We have taken a few photos of stuff along the way, but for the greater part photography was prohibited :(

Anyways i think Jen will be back with our bus tickets so i'm off.

We'll post our full itinerary and maybe some photos soon.


2 comments:

Chris said...

Talking escalators? Crazy! What do they say?

Joe said...

Mostly they say watch your step and have a nice day. We filled up the elevator here with too many people and it beeped furiously while talking japanese at us.