What Are They Doing?

Sunday morning in Brisbane Airport. Sad to say goodbye to everyone. Got on our 747. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn?t a more modern 747 - I was really looking forward to playing with the little entertainment systems that everyone had been telling me about. We were very lucky because we got our exit row seats. We got to see Bewitched, which was a bit funny. The 8 hours to Tokyo didn?t seem to take that long. The weather in Tokyo was a bit ordinary. We got off the plane and made our way out through customs. After lining up in the wrong queue the first time, we managed to get through with no problems. We then made our way to the bus departure area and waitied for our shuttle bus to the Hotel Nikko Narita. I saw my first bit of cool Engrish - The “Smokin’ Clean” bins. There is Engrish everywhere. I wish I had more time to get more photos of the crazy translations. We arrived at the hotel and piled inside for check-in. Got our room key - Room 488 - and made our way to the room. We met a friendly Japanese dude on the way who asked us where we were from. We told him Australia and he proceeded to say, “Well, G’day Mates!” with his Japanese accent. Very funny. After we had put our things in the room we headed downstairs to see what was still open. We asked a guy about the shopping centre, and he said that it was open till 10pm. On a Sunday night! We got in the free shuttle bus again and headed into town. Japan is so extreme. I think that if something doesn’t have flashing lights on it, no one will notice it. Near the airport the big thing is car parks. Whoever has the brightest sign will have the car park monopoly. The shopping complex was full on as well. Most of the shop names are based upon American sayings. I can’t remember any in particular except that most of them were very funny. After looking around for a while, we went to the food court and got some dinner. Most things have English translations, but it is still a little difficult to order. We ended up staying safe and going to McDonalds. I had an awesome chicken burger - heaps better than the Australian chicken burger. We then had some Baskin & Robbins ice cream for dessert. We did really well with the ordering, except that I couldn’t add up the total cost properly and gave the girl the wrong money. I was 100 yen short, but she couldn’t work out how to tell me, so she went and got a calculator. By this time I had worked it out and had another 100 yen waiting for her. We wandered aroung and found “Plaza Capcom” - a gaming arcade. This place was amazing. They really love their games. There are games that you play for money. They have an electronic Monopoly game that people use real money to play with. There were even kids gambling their money away on these games. Crazy. It is a real family outing from what I saw. Whole families go there to play, the kids go off and play their games while the parents play as well. There was this awesome soccer game that the player used these collectable trading cards on the gaming board to set out their field. I guess the better cards that a person has the better their team will be. We then headed back to the hotel and crashed to
sleep.

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