After a long and needless to say stressful trip we have made it into Japan. Our first flight out on Friday was canceled and we had to go back to Carthage until Saturday only to push back our tours a day. Marissa passed out on the first flight within 45 minutes. She hadn't eaten or slept much, so her immune system was probably stressed out. She gets really bad motion sickness and it was her first time flying.
After arriving in San Franciso we had only an hour to run down to the international terminal and through security so of course we didn't make it in time but they held the plane for us. Running through the airport going to the last gate in the terminal with a bassoon a carry on and a winter coat on is something I do not want to experiance again. I was a little warm (such an understatement!)
We arrived in Japan about 3:00pm it was overcast, about 42 degrees but we had to get on a bus to make up for lost time and get to Osaka which was 3 hours. We were going to take a bullet train but it involved a lot of walking to the hotel with our luggage after we go off, so we opted for the bus. (At least it wasn't seven hours like rumor had stated). Some of us went to the Kabuki Theather tonight already and practically all of us fell asleep through it - including Dr. Ripley and myself. It was very interesting though I did see half of it.
Allison and I went out to dinner at a little 24hour bowl shop. had beef and rice and I ate EVERY SINGLE GRAIN OF RICE! it only cost me 480 yen! but already it is going on 11:00 and we need to get up early for another day...that day just happens to be my birthday.
p.s. I went to go change my jewlery today and my jewlery is missing. When I had opened up my suitcase last night everything was shoved around, and not very orderly- quite the opposite of the way I pack. Well my jewlery is missing and Megan's is too. (A girl in the band) Ripley is calling United today becaue there was some other suitcases that were damaged and rifled through. I probably wont get any of it back, but Ripley said maybe a refund...to bad that box of jewlery was probably about 200$ worth of stuff and the stuff I change in and out every day. All of it was from work. No diamonds or anything really expensive but it was my jewlery that I enjoyed wearing and worked so hard to get through work.
