Tokyo

We are all home safe and sound, back in the real world after a wonderful little jaunt to Tokyo Disney Sea. I safely and successfully navigated us from our home to our hotel, and back without a single mistake. Once there we opted for the trains instead of the car.

Tokyo Disney Sea is wonderful, Mandy and Jeff did Disneyland a couple of years ago. We had never heard of or been to Disney Sea and we were pleasantly surprised. It was so wonderful and no crowds. Right on to every ride, lots of room for Lily to run and play. Lily by the way was so sweet the entire trip. I did take a picture of her screaming her head off in the car on the way home, but she was an angel the whole trip.

On our second day we had planned to do some sight seeing, it rained, and rained. So we took advantage of all our hotel had to offer. Swimming and eating, Mandy had a facial. We took turns with Lily, during my down time I read my text book in the lobby of the hotel.

So we are home and much poorer for the journey. I got to see Tokyo. I used to think I don't like cities, but now that I have been to a few I have to say I love big cities. I love everything about them. Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, London, Milano, Cairo - I have really loved each and everyone of them. There is such an energy.

Tokyo is my favorite so far. I wish I could live there for about a year. I noticed that on the toll road, we had to merge on and off of seven different free-way type roads in order to get to our hotel, lots of lane changes. We were always having to make the last minute lane change being tourists and I noticed that as soon as you put on your blinker the other drivers made room for you. Same with getting on and off of subways, people were so incredibly accommodating and polite. I love polite. I didn't see a single aggressive driver in Tokyo, not a single aggressive person on the subway. I have noticed that during my time in Japan I have become a more relaxed go with the flow type of person. I will try to take this with me, where ever it is we are going next.

I wish I had taken more pictures. We were on this one bridge, Rainbow Bridge, right in the heart of Tokyo, you have this incredible view. I was so busy navigating I didn't think of taking a picture. The enormous buildings are all lined up right at the edge of the water. There is a little island in the middle of all those buildings, that is all green, a garden, with grass and trees, a walkway and a bench. It was so lovely there in the middle of all that steel and concrete. I will look for something on the Internet to show you what I mean.




All those streets, all those buildings, we made it there and back. I wish I had so more time, but I am glad I got to go.

My overall observation of life from this trip is that people everywhere who are in their 20's are the same. They dress the same, wear their hair the same, act the same, here in rural Japan, down in Tokyo, over in Beijing, in the U.S., in London, Paris, Cairo, Milano, I think this generation is international in its style. Fifty years from now the world is going to be a very different place.