tokyo? TOKYO!!!!!!

our trip is nice and fresh, so i might actually blog regularly for a few days.

our flight made it in, which is always a surprise to me. stupid airplanes. the trip was just as exhausting as i thought it would be, until we got into the subway system. the thing requires so damn much attention the first time around that you just kinda have to wake up. so four hours of bopping around looking lost in subway stations, and we somehow made it to rich+joan's place. four hours, btw, of having our first glance of japan. the trains we took happened to all be JR trains - all above ground. so i soaked in all the eye candy, from tokyo's far west to far east, past downtown, past all the solar panel-covered rooftops in the suburbs, intersperced with rice paddies and busy streets. past the jam-packed beast that is downtown tokyo, past the bright lights and all the things that draw everyone to big cities.

anyways! it was love at first sight. i wanted to take billions of pictures, but decided instead to just stare (it wasn't really a decision; i couldn't take my eyes off the city, i didn't have a chance to take the camera out).

today was good times. we had six hours of walking around and checking out shinjuku and shibuyu. saw a shrine. neat stuff. i was too bright-eyed and star-struck to be able to come up with any sort of plan for the day, so i stared and was awed for six hours straight. beautiful! mum and are are slowly figuring out how to travel together, maybe by the time we part ways, we'll have it all under control. *fingers crossed*

oh! and our hosts are absolutely choice! beautiful, fantastic couple, i don't even know how to begin describing how thankful i am to have met such amazing people here. what are the chances!?

it's only 8pm now, and i'm heading to bed - we're totally whiped.

maybe you'll hear from me tomorrow!!