Makin it to Japan

Ahhh, so I'm finally here!!! Lets back track a little to see how it all went down:

So my dad stayed the nite with me the day before the flight. It was nice just having him around, watching tv (although Ice Age isnt really good....), helping me with luggage (apparently I can't use a scale to weigh anything), and making sure I can lock the damn doors. We ended up leaving Warsaw around... 3:30, then we stopped by Chesterton to pick up my sister, and then we all were off to the Ohare Airport. I thought I was going to be late, homans thank goodness I wasn't. Of course there were tears with our parting ways... but oddly enough there were not any from me. I guess I was being a little "robot-like", just knowing I'll be back and there is nothing to be sad about. It'll hit me soon though, betcha any money.

I had a really tiny plane to take me from Chicago to New York. Oh my friggen god, tiny-ass seats. I remember there was an older man traveling with his family, and he was just bein soo friggen difficult!! He was trying to get a whole row for himself, when there wasn't any room, and he had this friggen 8 inch thick-ass cigar hanging from his mouth the entire time. Thank goodness he didn't make a fuss about not being able to smoke it...

New York to Narita went a little differently than I thought. I thought I was going to travel over the north pole, or at least eastwards to get to Japan... but turns out we just back-tracked a little and still went through Canada, across Alaska, ect. Oh well, I really can't complain, cause the flight was great!!! In economy, it was -maybe- 2/3rd full, so when I asked a stewardess if I could find a seat with more room, and I got a whole row by myself (3 seats). HELL to the YES XDDDD I was able to sprawl out and sleep for a majority of the flight. Other perks of flying with Continental... 1- Every seat had a screen, just like JAL. What makes this even more awesome though is that you can PICK what movie, TV show, or music you wanted, and its on YOUR time. So its not looping. SCHWEET. Kill Bill was fun to watch again. 2- Food was TASTY! I had Shrimp Scampi, a "burger", and an omelet with a broccoli-somethin. MMMM good shitt!

I will say this: My sister mentioned a story to me that she SHOULD NOT OF BROUGHT UP before I friggen fly... I guess a few days ago, a FedEx plane crashed in Narita. So right when we get to the airport, she asks if I heard, and I start -freaaaakin- out. Of course during the flights there was some turbulence, and it made me think of what my sister said... UGH and I am waayy better at ascending into the sky than descending to the ground.... >0< class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Narita, customs went smoothly. I was a little stupid and forgot my OWN address (although I wrote everyone else's down...), but I eventually got it and sent my big bags via Kuro Neko. Then I made my way to the trains. Didn't get too lost. I took a train that was $10 from Narita to Ueno. Then I had to figure out the rest of the way... and OMG I was sooo lost!!! I finally mustered the courage to ask a man, and he was sooo nice about everything. I finally got to Alipon's station at like... 6:30... which was an hour and a half later than planned. I kept trying to call her through a pay phone (which I realized later I was putting 100 yen in the phone, but when you do that, you wont get change back, and its only 10 yen... WTF...). One time I tried to call her cell phone, and it wasn't her, it was someone else!!!! But I called her landline, FINALLY got a hold of her, and thank god we met! :D Also thank god she lives a hop, skip, and a jump away from the damn station, I WAS DRENCHED WITH SWEAT!!! YUCK!!!

After I cleaned up, we went to a soba-ya at the station. If only I woulda just listened to Alipon and went to the Italian place, I woulda met Popo and Daichi a lot sooner!!! In the end, we all ended up bumping into each other after dinner. They were gettin married in 2 days, sooo exciting!!! Okay, I'll cut this post here, and put the rest of my Yokohama-Tokyo adventures in the next :D Otanoshimi ni~~!!