Day 32 - Thursday July 23: My GOLDEN Birthday!!

Hooray, it is my Golden b-day! This is me blowing out the imaginary candle in my McDonald's Oreo McFlurry.

Got up at 6 am to head to the Taipei Airport - private driver again...no big deal. Had Burger King for breakfast. 3 hour flight to Tokyo/Narita. Only ate my dessert on the plane and watched "He's just not that into you." Worst experience ever - Let me tell you, never try to watch a movie on a 3 hour flight where they insist on making announcements every 20 minutes in 3 different languages. I honestly cried I was so mad, all I wanted to do was watch my movie.

Then we had over an hour of train rides to get to our hostel. From there the Anne Hostel was easy to find and right near the metro stop. By this time of course I was starving as it was 6:30 pm and I hadn't eaten since my BK...anyone who knows me knows I was also crying about this. OF COURSE, I can't let Geoff and Danika know this so there was a lot of staring at the ground going on.

We got settled in our hostel and then walked around the neighborhood a bit. Tokyo is very clean and the streets were empty and quiet - a nice change for HK and Taiwan. The best part was that there were not flashing signs on every building surface. Oh and there were no wierd smells. We ate cheese pizza and pop with free refills for around US $5 each...awesome.

Didn't do too much else besides explore the neighborhood a bit more. Back at the hostel at 10:30 to get ready to sleep in our 12 person room. Yikes!

BTW. It is the 23rd of July, my 23rd b-day and the 32nd day of our trip...creepy.