I arrived just after lunch, and after a short bus ride I met
up with my travel companions for the week, whom informed me that we were headed
to the amusement park. Straight off the airplane and straight onto the roller
coaster! The ride we took was a lot of fun and had a massive drop. I hope to
transition from more of my future flights this way!
My travel companions are: Anthony, my best bud in Asia. He
was the first person I met in Nanjing three years ago (he’d actually
interviewed me for the job there as well) and we’ve been close ever since.
We’ve traveled to Hong Kong and South Korea together prior to Japan.
Companions two is Simon, twelve years old. Simon is the
youngest son of Anthony’s employer, a Swedish family living in Hong Kong.
Anthony works exclusively as their personal chef, but Anthony has such a warm
and caring personality that he has really become part of the family. The family
keeps such a busy schedule between work and different travel arrangements
around the world (they are in New York right now) that they occasionally ask
Anthony to take family members on travel experiences. Having Simon along on
this trip will be fun and entertaining on a different level, something I can
appreciate more knowing that my brother will have those experiences as a father
down the line. Traveling with a kid provides all kinds of youthful, innocent
experiences like questions posed such as: “If you could choose between a house
boat or a house on land, and all the food is taken care of, which would you
choose?”
Speaking of food, we had a nice, traditional Japanese meal
for dinner. The restaurant requires guests to take off shoes, and the tables
are kind of sunken into the floor, so you literally step down to your table.
This is because of their culture of service here, so the waiter/waitress who
attends your table can kneel on the floor next to you. The service here is
definitely at an entirely different level!
We also walked through a main electronics street mall at
night, and that provided some interesting photos.
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