Arty Farty? Seymore Hair? Betty is in my head all the time. I am fascinated she is so far reaching.

John after the food i have had this past week, i will have bangers and mash with you anytime.

I cannot sleep as i am still time zone confused and so i blog. I did indeed return from a trip to the land of the rising sun. It was truly amazing. My flight there connected in chicago and with an 11 hour flight to tokyo. That was a long day since they are 14 hours ahead of the U.S. I got there the next day. Coming home was not as pleasant even though i landed only 2 hours after i left. We stayed in a 4 star hotel for 6 days and had a tour guide and bus take us to every site an american tourist would be interested in. breafast lunch dinner and kimonos were all provided. I did not eat much. I was a bit more adventurous than i normally would be and i tried to be accommodating as i am aware they are an archipelago and so the staple food would be fish. WOW, i was not prepared for the array of foods or the scent. Sometimes it felt like it probably still had a hook in it. The first day we were taken to a trendy tempura place in SHINJUKU-KU. I thought how could you go wrong with tempura, deep fried anything is usually pretty good. I was mistaken. My tempura still had scaly tails sticking out of the end. There was no way i was taking a chance on what was hiding beneath. The second course was sushi.......... Several pieces still had scales on them and no matter how familiar something appeared it was not what it appeared to be. I did have few good things, not alll the food was bad but i did go to bed hungry most nights. Every time i was brought something i thought, Jenia would eat this stuff. We did have some kobe teriyaki steak one night that was amazing. And the toilets rae another story entirely. My hotel did have Johnny's favorite toilets, the automatic one with the remote control.well i need to unpack and get out the camera cord to show you. more to follow nite for now.