Hey everyone!!!Merry Christmas, hope you all had a great day, i know i did, but more on that laterrr...
i am in Japan safe and sound!!!i apologise for not blogging sooner, but we had no internet at our poky little hotel.
this is how our first three days have been
day 1- The night before we left, my uncle rohan held a christmas dinner at his house. since he trained as a chef you can imagine the spread! There were salad, meat, potatoes, garlic bread, seafood, vegies.... I could go on. ( btw, Happy birthday D! Hope you had a nice day)
Then we drove to a hotel about five minutes away from the airport for the night. we got there at about 10 at night, and we got a wake-up call at three. -.-
we got a shuttle bus to the airport and waited for ages at the check-in and security.
Then we were on the plane finally... but they didn't get us breakfast so we had cheese toasties for breakfast (lol Amy)
our first stopoff was at cairns and it was sooo hot and humid. we checked through our bags again, and went to security.
That was the interesting part...
apparently, the security guards randomly test people for drugs but they didn't tell us that when they took me off for testing. They told me to take off my shoes and to stand in this sort of capsule with my legs apart and my hands over my head. then they closed the door and i got scanned by a big moving bar. Then i got out, i felt awful because i thought that they chose me for the scanning because they saw me do something i shouldn't have, and they checked the results. it was all good, but i was still really confused. They let me out and i went back to scanning to find mum and Gerard being swabbed for explosives! It was all rather confusing.
We then headed to the food court and had lunch. It was really expensive! my pie and mums sushi and gerard sausage roll were each $12.50! after that we went to the bookshop and i read some of mockingjay- it was amazing, and i bought about by my favorite author Phillipa Gregory called "Lady of the River"
just after that we were called to gate 6 for boarding. Take-off was fine, and soon after they brought round ipads for hire. for some reason, there were no tv's in the backs of the chairs, so mum hired an ipad. she and gerard slept most of the way, ( I can't sleep on planes..) so i got the ipad for most of the trip. I watched downton abbey, Glee and madagascar.
We had chicken and rice for a second lunch ;) with free drinks! yum
We finally arrived and went through immigration then through to the arrival lounge to Tim!!
Thennnn we had a hour train ride back to our hotels. remeber that i  hadn't slept for about 20 hours and i was sitting on a plane for 12 hours of it? yeah, not good.
But the trains ARE good. they have a system like our Mykis, but they actually work. They are called Pasmo's, and even if they are 10 centimetres away they beep and let you in. The trains are heated, and have tv's on them.
There are a lot of rumours going round about Japan, and I am going to say if they are true or not
- THE TOILETS ARE HIGH-TECH- this is very true!!! There are a million buttons on them including music, flashing lights, an option to get your bum cleaned and others. There was a sign about how to use the buttons and one said"This button has the equipment to cleansing the buttocks with warm water" LOL
- THERE ARE VENDING MACHINES FOR EVERYTHING- This is also true, you can get gum, drinks hot and cold and i have even heard about used underwear venders... o.O

back to my experiences, when we got off the train i noticed that all the Japanese people are really fashion fanatics, even the guys! There are so many crazy shoes and hairstyles. The sad thing is that lots of them have bleached their hair. Don't do that Annie, I love your hair.
We had a five (五)minutes walk to our hotel, which is called the Sakura which means cherry blossom.   桜帆手l

I will put on a few pictures now and start a new post in a minute.
Please comment and feel free to ask questions.
Bye for a few minutes!
Gen