Status report

[cjsmith]

Less than 24 hours in the country and I've already bought food I couldn't eat and had to throw away. I was lucky to go that long, really. I'm in Japan, for goodness' sake, and I can't eat fish or seafood. I'm lucky I can eat at all. Mochi = wonderful, and hey, since I did come here with Rob, I'm in McDonald's twice a day. Haute cuisine it isn't, but it's got calories in it!

We didn't see a blade of grass out of place at Narita. Maybe the crash was on the opposite side of the field.

The train system defeats me. I can do the subways, but transfer me to something else and I'm useless. Fortunately Rob has a better instinct for those.

Ueno Park is starting to bloom, and it looks like it's going to be STUNNING in about a week.

It's nifty having a teapot in the hotel room.

Mikie wants us to sing. This is going to be a disaster. We tried to tell her what the dancers do when we sing. ("You're not going to do any more of those... are you?") She was undeterred. Yikes.

My feet hurt. Surprise.

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[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

Huh, I was going to check in here to make sure you know about the open house on Sat for the new "green" humane society facility in Milpitas. Supposed to have much more humane (larger? and no bars) areas for the animals and lots of other stuff. Um, but I guess you won't be going :) since you are in Japan :) Wow.

densaer -- I like the "have someone write a note" solution -- one can even buy cards that have veg-food requests, in a whole set of languages. (They sell them for a couple different flavors -- at least veg-lacto-ovo and vegan -- maybe more -- and I don't recall how many languages come in the set.) But I like the personal flavor of a hand-written note.... plus you can have it say what you want :) But also interesting that one can buy a whole set of cards for this purpose..... (or could a while back -- I bought some!)