Interesting differences in Japan, info+-rmation and experiences we have had:
- If your in the back seat, you don't need a seat belt, we still use ours of course :)
- If your not the driver, you can drink in the car
- The baseball stadium is a short walk from where we live and tickets are $50.00 or less, so we will for sure be checking out some games
- Make sure to walk on the left side of escalators, as people want to pass on the right
- They are fascinated with blonde hair here, a lot of people really look at and watch Brooke closely
- Very friendly, safe country, I dropped my hat in the airport, and a man ran up and tapped me on the shoulder to give it back. (not sure if I already mentioned that one in my post)
- Very few labels have English, so it's an adventure every day we shop, trying to figure out what were buying. We bought what we thought was dishwasher soap. We asked a fellow at an Indian Restaurant that we went to (he spoke English), if we bought the right thing, and he told us no, that it was to use while washing dishes by hand. We also bought what looked like pork bacon, but it turned out to be some sort of beef strips, they were still really good for breakfast
- I learned how to say one and two by thinking "itchy knee" as one is itchi and two is ni. This will be helpful when ordering meals or coffee's etc.
- For our first major outing, we picked out a place that is a 15 minute walk from our place, called the New Otani (mentioned in my blog). It turns out that the picture on the front page of a book that Nancy (Grahams mother) bought us, is a picture of the New Otani Japanese Garden. It was very ironic that it was the first major place we chose to go to, and had no idea the picture was of that. I figured it out when we got home from our visit to the New Otani, and I took a double take of the front cover of the book, thinking it looked familiar, upon a closer look I figured out we had just been there, and Graham and I had a good laugh.