b’s blog

We went to yokohama (bay city south of tokyo) to visit benny and
gavin’s host family from last summer and we ended up staying the night
(saturday). Good food and we went to some yokohama malls on sunday.
It was a great time and I can see why they had so much fun last year.

I want to come back in 2 years to buy a cell phone (among other
things) when my current contract expires/cellphone goes obsolete. The
phones here are really nice, esp. compared to the ugly ones back home.
Maybe I’ll get b a phone as a souvenir. What do they use in
australia in terms of phone signal?

at 904 ft off the ground, it was all good! Spinning around the top of America’s tallest freestanding tower at 3G’s was a better rush than the skydiving was.

I seriously thought Cindy was going to leave Kelly and I to go it alone but in the end she braved it. She hopped into a seat and made Kelly sit beside her.

At first I clung on to the rail but after a minute I let go, arms in the air, staring into the night sky screaming at the other two to let go while they screamed back at me NNNOOOOO!!!!!

I think Cindy broke Kelly’s hand on the ride by squeezing it too hard!

I’d do it again and maybe the other 3 rides too.

Hungover, Rayleen backed out of skydiving. Understandable, who wants to skydive while you're hungover!? I was pretty excited about it. I pumped myself and the gals up about it before we even left and they were willing to give it ... [Continue reading this entry]

After watching American Superstars at the Strat, we changed into our "Everybody loves a Canadian girl" t-shirts, cabbed it to Caeser's Palace to go to Pure for some dancing. Unfortunately, it was closed for "The Contender" (reality tv program ... [Continue reading this entry]

and we decide to go to the Outlet mall to go shopping. Boy, we are insane! But the nice thing about it is the mist sprayers scattered throughout. Too bad it's so hot the mist evaporates before ... [Continue reading this entry]

OMG. our 2 hour layover in Seattle turned into 5 hous! Let's just say, don't fly Alaskan Airlines. They offered a 5 dollar snack voucher and 5 mintues phone card for our inconvience but the phone card didn't ... [Continue reading this entry]

Man, in alberta, we're spoiled with all our smoking bylaws. I miss not havint to run out of a fast food restaurant because the smoke was burning my eyes! other than that, it seems the quality of everything is higher in japan. ... [Continue reading this entry]

And I'm still not excited at all. People I've told are excited for me though. Maybe it's the weather report, supposed to be between 25-40C the entire time we are there!

train, train, ooo's, ahh's, walking, malls, buffet, malls, malls, malls, malls, Toyota's pallette town, cars, ooh's ahh's, malls, home. Did I mention all the malls in the area? really cool architechture of buildings and bridges. didn't get to ride the sea busses cars are neat buffet ... [Continue reading this entry]

I've eatten at mcdonalds here 5 times already cuz the price is right 500JPY for a burger (theres like 10 to choose from) then your choice of 5 nuggets, salad or fries, AND THEN your choice of drink or 100JPY each for any item ... [Continue reading this entry]