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I'm in Japan. Uhhh, it's been fun. Got to our guest house today...and...yeah. Fun. LOL

Destini in NIPPON '09 | Day 1-2

Okay! Hello my dears/....dansei if there are any. Sorry my first post regarding me being in Japan was really like. "Yeah. Japan. Great." I'm SO stoked to be here, I had just written that at like. 1AM. Haha.

SO, arriving here was a [expletive deleted]. We had to lug our suitcases around stations. For me, not just any suitcase. A 70+ pound suitcase. I used a bigger one because I figured it'd weight less 'cause *I* didn't think I had a lot of stuff packed. No! No, it was a monster!

Quite a few of you all have met me. I AM SHORT. There's no other way around it - I'm short! You know what? It was a terror. Short me + bag that weight 70+lbs! My arms are still in pain! Every taxi we encountered was like, "Uwa, omotta!" (Dang that is heavy.) GOMEN NASAI, TAXI DUDES!

So timeline of events, yeah?

I arrived at Narita on July 4th, around 4PM. We took the N'Ex train from the airport to Tokyo Station and then headed to Kameido to stay at the Super Hotel there. It was nice! Tiny, but nice. Didn't even eat that night because we were utterly exhausted.

Woke up on the 5th and headed to Shinjuku. In Shinjuku, we went to Sakura House's building to check into our guest house. It was fun and lots of paperwork but we got it done! I had never used my card in Japan (it's a prepaid VISA) and so I was surprised that it worked but so relieved! Then, we, once again, had to drag our luggage down to Higashi-Nagasaki. That didn't go without injury, Emily-chan ripped both her toenails up some. They bled and I felt so bad but she's such a trooper. :)

We finally decided while in Yoyogi I believe to take a taxi because it was just too much. We got to Sakura House and dragged our luggage (and ourselves) in and unpacked and cooled down.

Then we headed to Shibuya to get prepaid phones, but they were sold out for the day! So we'll be going back this morning. Here's hoping we wont have any issues. They did say we can get a prepaid phone with *just* our passports though for 7,000 Yen! How cool, plus we can keep the phones forever.

Then! We ate at a nice place in Shibuya. I had tsukemen~ I love tsukemen.

Then! We went to Shibuya 109 because they are have a huge 5-Day Bargain Sale! I like, loved it. It was MADNESS, gyaru everywhere! Whenever I went into a b-kei shop, I got looked at like, "O___O ACTUAL AFRICAN AMERICAN!"

Then I went into Baby Shoop and they spoke to me after they realized I knew some Japanese and it was AWESOME~ They liked my hair...they said, "It costs us like $500 to get that done here!" My mom keeps telling me I need to learn how to do extensions. I can make serious bank out here! It's on my to-do list for sure.

Anyhow, I walked out Baby Shoop with new stuff. Only $39 bucks though and I got a free gift! Best timing too because I was just complained to Emily about my makeup bag and here they give me a new one~ <3

Then we went to Harajuku! I know, it's like "Don't have all your fun at once!" but we were hyped still. I showed Emily where the Johnny's shop was. It was a lot easier than the first time that I wanted to go and like, walked ALL THE WAY TO OMOTESANDO HILLS because I didn't get where to turn. That was a big waste of time. So, this time I found it immediately!

Then we walked down Takeshita Doori. Everything was closing but we found a purikura shop that was open. They had TONS of idol stuff around! We had like fangirl aneursyms! It was madness. We got cellphone charms engraved (mine says 櫻井くんのFAN) and then used the capsule machine and got charms with their pictures in them! >.<!!

Then, we looked around a bit more but headed home and...!! Didn't get lost! It was awesome. Then, we got the internet working so that's how I'm even able to type this~ Then!!! We watched MUSIC LOVERS live! It was like icing on the cake of our long long day.

More as it happens~ I'll try and take lots of pictures too. ^^

Lastly, you all know this but I LOVE SHO! I watched his SCP and oh my osh, I wanted to weep so many times. I know, it's like "WTF..." but he's so...eloquent and admirable! Just, NYAAAA! <3 Love him.