Japan
We spent time in Tokyo and Hokane with the thermal baths near Mount Fuji
June 12 2016: Riley's Birthday!
Dear journal,
Today, I woke up given the directions not to wake Aleisha up because she was up partying at a club last night, well may have walked in and she woke up. So past that, we all got ready to go to breakfast. At the mall area, we decided on a Hawaiian café and ate there. First, Aleisha braided my hair, then we engaged in the conversation of Aleisha’s time last night, apparently everyone at the club looked up to her and did whatever she did. Back on track, I ordered banana, chocolate, pancakes and because tomorrow is my Birthday the people put Happy Birthday Riley! With stars and flowers and a sparkling firecracker stick. Then we grabbed all our luggage and backpacks (that felt like the weighed a million pounds) and spent several hours conquering the subway of Japan; we took 3 trains and 1 bus. Well, we were supposed to take a bus, but we spent 30 minutes running up and down the streets after our bus never finding out where it stopped. We finally just got a taxi, no 2 taxies because we had 4 huge suitcases and 5 backpacks, sure did we look like tourists, anyways the driver couldn’t fit everything in so we got another taxi. The subway wore us out, running around trying to find our train trying not to look like those people who don’t know what they’re doing, but the fact that we were the only ones talking on the train and asking where our stop didn't help our case. I forgot to add when we were running down the streets trying to catch a bus a car drove past and four children younger than me yelled out “hi”, it was awesome. When we got to the spa they put all our luggage in a room and gave us our locker keys wristbands. After we changed into our bathing suits we went out to the spa’s first the coffee spa, then the wine spa, then the fish spa, then the green tea spa, then the white wine spa, next to some tea spa, finally the collagen spa. My favorite was the fish spa because the fish ate all your dead skin off your feet and it felt so good. I had at least 30 fish on each my feet, together with my dad and I had more fish on our feet than the other 8 people combined. We raced down the slides outside the interior spas, sitting up, laying down, on our belly’s face first which I screamed this isn’t safe the whole way down because it wasn’t. Aleisha and my Dad made me go on the super twisting straight down a slide that they both got hurt sitting up, up on! The slide I was on bounced them off the sides so they were slamming into the edges and sides then made them experience water up to their noses. First, my dad thought Aleisha wasn’t very coordinated, yet then he tried it and the same thing happened to him. So I was stuck on that slide going face first which you can imagine how that went, I got bruised up on my sides, literally. So after the slides we went to our hotel cramming all our luggage in one taxi, Ansley had to sit on Aleisha’s lap to leave a seat open for luggage, we were all crammed together in the back seat of a taxi for 40 minutes. When we got to the hotel we signed in, then ate at the lounge. After dinner, we went up to our cottage, yes cottage to sleep. Ansley and Aleisha got the American style beds while my dad and I slept on traditional Japanize floor beds of some kind. It was surprisingly comfy for a floor bed.
Bye for now,
Riley Jaye
June 11th 2016
Dear journal,
Today we all got ready to go to breakfast. At the mall area, we decided on a Hawaiian café and ate there. First Aleisha braided my hair, then we engaged in conversation of Aleisha’s time last night, apparently everyone at the club looked up to her and did whatever she did. Back on track, I ordered banana, chocolate, pancakes and because tomorrow is my Birthday the people put Happy Birthday Riley! With stars and flowers and a sparkling fire cracker stick. Then we grabbed all our luggage and backpacks (that felt like the weighed a million pounds) and spent several hours conquering the subway of Japan; we took 3 trains and 1 bus. Well we were supposed to take a bus, but we spent 30 minutes running up and down the streets after our bus never finding out were it stopped. We finally just got a taxi, no 2 taxies because we had 4 huge suitcases and 5 backpacks, sure did we look like tourists, anyways the driver couldn’t fit everything in so we got another taxi. The subway wore us out, running around trying to find our train trying not too look like those people who don’t know what they’re doing, but the fact that we were the only ones talking on the train and asking were our stop was didn’t help our case. I forgot to add when we were running down the streets trying to catch a bus a car drove past and four children younger than me yelled out “hi”, it was awesome. When we got to the spa they put all our luggage in a room, and gave us our locker keys wrist bands. After we changed into our bathing suits we went out to the spa’s first the coffee spa, then the wine spa, then the fish spa, then the green tea spa, then the white wine spa, next some tea spa, finally the collagen spa. My favorite was the fish spa because the fish ate all your dead skin off your feet and it felt so good. I had at least 30 fish on each my feet, together my dad and I had more fish on our feet than the other 8 people combined. We raced down the slides outside the interior spas, sitting up, laying down, on our belly’s face first which I screamed this isn’t safe the whole way down because it wasn’t. Aleisha and my Dad made me go on the super twisting straight down slide that they both got hurt sitting up, up on! The slide I was on bounced them off the sides so they were slamming into the edges and sides then made them experience water up their noses. First my dad thought Aleisha wasn’t very coordinated, yet then he tried it and the same thing happened to him. So I was stuck on that slide going face first which you can imagine how that went, I got bruised up on my sides, literally. So after the slides we went to our hotel cramming all our luggage in one taxi, Ansley had to sit on Aleisha’s lap to leave a seat open for luggage, we were all crammed together in the back seat of a taxi for 40 minutes. When we got to the hotel we signed in, then ate at the lounge. After dinner we went up to our cottage, yes cottage to sleep. Ansley and Aleisha got the American style beds while my dad and I slept on traditional Japanize floor beds of some kind. It was surprisingly comfy for a floor bed.
Bye for now,
Riley Jaye
Travel Day 3: June 10th
So, this morning we woke up and the struggle was real as Ansley and I set out to ask the hotel works for an adaptor, over coming the language barrio was tough. They didn't understand at first it took four people to finally find a person who understood us. Next we went to a buffet for breakfast desperate to finish so we could go to Disney Sea. We got ready for Disney, Ansley and Alesha: curled hair and makeup, well dressed, me: my PJ's, yes PJ's, brushed hair with no makeup #naturalbeauty .We all had on twin T-Shirts! At Disney the first ride we went on: the Tower of Terror was a 1 hour 30 minute wait and in line four 21 or so year old girls were staring at us for like 10 minutes(at least that's what Aleisha claims) so Aleisha tells us to wave so we do and we get in to a waving completion, for 5 minutes we were both waving at each other until Aleisha stopped us, then we took a selfie with them. Then we went on teacups, witch were a huge disappointment because they didn't even have the wheel to spin them, they spinned on their own. We went to a ride next with a loop that went upside down that's wait claimed to be 30 minutes, yet ended up being two hours. That is also were Aleisha left our map, so after that we were just walking around with out meaning. We went on the rides Angelina Jones, Center of the Earth, some water ride(forgot name), and a train ride, and that's how we ended our Disney Sea experience. Then we went to the gift shop to look for a shirt I really wanted, but it wasn't their even though every other shirt we saw from Disney land Gift Store was their but that shirt. I ended up getting a shirt that said "Disney Tokyo Sea #01" with tons of phases, words, and Disney pictures like micky mouse and Ariel even though it was a mens shirt and way to big on me, I loved it. Then we went to the mall by my hotel to find a restaurant to eat we picked Rain Forest café then went to LUSH quickly to check it out. Aleisha and Ansley bought a face mask; I didn't purchase anything. So then my dad met us atRain Forest Café and the language barrio was difficult, but we managed to succeed it. After dinner we came home, Ansley and Aleisha did their face mask while I was blogging. Suddenly we heard a loud sound like a gun shot coming from out side. We managed to discover it was fire works coming from Disney that we didn't get the privilege to see do to our room location. Tomorrow we will be going to the spa, but before then I will be getting some sleep.
Good Bye For Now,
Riley Jaye
IThursday the 9th 2016
I woke up at 4:40 this morning out of excitement, we're in Japan. About to go to Disney land. I just walked in to grab food and I may or may not have woke Aleisha up; she looked up and stared at me, so I ran back into my bedroom(our hotel has two bedrooms).For breakfast we went to a buffet at our hotel were Ansley, Aleisha and I discussed the exciting conversation of our Dream weddings. My Dream wedding involves a lavender purple wedding dress covered in sparkle, a unicorn, a food fight, and more. At Disney we hit almost every ride. My personal favorite rides were Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and the teacups. Yes, the Teacups, you're never to old for theTeacups. So at the gift shop we purchased bracelets with our names engraved on to them and twining minney mouse T- shirts. Ansley became a celebrity doing back walk overs, cartwheels, round offs, etc. down the streets of Disney, Seriously every one was clapping and cheering. As Aleisha said "Little blonde girls tumbling in Japan is not something people in Japan see every day. "Anyway, Aleisha met the man f her dreams today at a roller coaster, he spoke English fluently because he's from Australia he started talking to her and they found they had a lot in common. He was looking like he was dreaming, he loved Aleisha so much! we were in the park for 9 hours, it was awesome! After Disney we went to a sandwich place in our hotelfor dinner there was only one problem: the people didn't know what a vegetarian was. So I told them my order for a customized vegetarian sandwich and they didn't understand me. So when we got back to our hotel room there were only two sandwiches, neither was mine. So I ended up getting room service vegetable soup. When we were all laying down Aleisha's boyfriend called, he lied to Aliesha a week ago and Aleisha had not forgave him get, so it ended up being to hours of Ansley, yes Ansley, telling him how wrong he was to lie to a lady and how he had to find a way to make it up to her or else their would be consequences. Later that night he said he was having nightmares about Ansley. Then at 11:00 o'clock my dad's room key didn't work, so he was locked out of our room and luckily able to manage to yell in for Ansley to unlock the key for him tiredly.
Bye for now,
Riley jaye
June 7: Travel day 1
dear journal,
We took a 8 hour flight to Japan today and landed at 2:40 Wednesday the 8th, When were we came from (seattle) it was still the 7th. Talk about time travel! Anyway we are in Japan now!! We took a few busses to the hotel, tired and all from our flight but excited to start our voyage. We then check in and head up to our room, which by the way in AWESOME! Two rooms with four beds and moving curtains the open and close with the press of a button. But above all of that, the toilets here have a spray setting. So when we got to the hotel we all found we were starving, so we went down to select a restaurant. At first having trouble to find somewhere to eat, we finally decided to go to a cultural Japanese restaurant, because it felt right to try to cultural food. Any way its hard to describe the night, I almost threw up twice, Ansley freaked out about holding a lobster and was making so many funny remarks we thought she was sleep deprived and delusional, and we all seemed to play with our food more than we ate it. It seemed we were auctioning off all of our food to see who would be next to suffer from the "cultural experience", then dying from laughter as one innoecent member of our travel the world clan gaged as they experienced the traditional food of japan at their finest. We kept on being served strange meals, they brought over this then that, we were all cracking up at the sight of the strange non American food. After our interesting dinner that ended up being close to 300 or so, we went up to our hotel room and got ready for bed.
Bye for now,
Riley