ENTRY 1: May 8th to May 9th, 2001

Transportation

On our trip to Japan, we rode in many different kinds of vehicles. On the morning of, May 7th when we left our house, we drove in our van to Denver International Airport (DIA). We parked far away from the airport and had to take a shuttle bus to get to the airport terminal building. After checking in our luggage, we took a train to the gate and then boarded onto the plane. We rode on a 757 and a 777. When we got to Japan, we rode on a really cool train, the Keisei Skyliner from the airport to Tokyo's Ueno Station, and from the station we took a taxi to where we are staying. There were many signs in English at the airport and all the announcements on the train were both in Japanese and English. I had to ask my mother if we were really in Japan because it didn't feel too strange. I like being in Japan. It was fun to take a bath. In Japan you do not take a bath to get clean, you have to get clean first to take a bath and it's fun because you can get water all over the bathroom floor. They have many different kinds of potties here. Some have heated seats, some have all kinds of buttons, and it's hard to figure out which is the one to flush. When you flush the toilet in our condo, you can see the water go into the top of the tank and that's where you can wash your hands, in the water that refills the tank. It may sound gross, but it's cool and it saves water.

We have posted 2 pages of photos

Photos pt. 1

photos pt. 2