Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Trip to Japan

The one woe I've had since coming to Korea... well should I say, one of the woes, has been money. My bank account was frozen because I forgot to tell the bank I was moving to South Korea...whoops! And instead of a bank account in Korea I have a secret envelope hidden under something in my room.

So when I decided to go to Japan, this all presented quite a challenge - not to mention it was Christmas and everything was closed. After playing phone and email tag with several different travel agents, I finally managed to book a flight to Japan for the 27th on the 26th... and if you know me, you know how I like to do everything WELL in advance!

The trip to the airport was sans stress.. I think the first airport trip that I have ever had that was stressless!! I got there so early, and even though I had to go to immigration and the money exchange, I did everything in a matter of minutes. And spent the rest of the time shopping (I have never shopped at an airport - they have good stuff!). Oh I guess the one faux pas I made was not having my phone number memorized. So when I went through immigration I had to make one up. Whoops, hope they don't call me on it!

Soon enough we were in the air. And then I was in Japan. I was thinking of just making one post about the trip, but the trip was so amazing there will be many posts to come... and pictures, courtesy of my friend arnel - the professional photographer and Keiko, his new wife (my wonderful hosts!)... Stay tuned.

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