Leaving for Japan today! I woke up around 6am, had breakfast with my parents then headed off to Newark airport! I might have gotten a little lost finding security but we made it. I also found out that Esther was on my flight! It made the wait for boarding so much easier. We boarded the plane and took off. Here’s my breakdown of the meals ( I’ve never had meals on an airplane before):

Meal 1: ~2pm Halal butter chicken with cilantro rice and some sides like bread and veggies plus brownie brittle!

The butter chicken was good but the cilantro rice was a bit strong on cilantro ( I guess that’s the point)

I actually really liked the butter chicken though! The packaging reminded me of curry like the one my roommate makes at home

Meal 2: around 4 or5 it was turkey and Swiss on a baguette pretty mid ; came with m&ms. I got sleepy around this point but stayed up with the will to play Zelda

Meal 3 ( breakfast!): around midnight with 1:30 left in the flight they’ve given us a lot of snacks and water and the lights are starting to turn on

I’m feeling really sleepy at this point and took a 10 minute Power Nap but I had a bag of goldfish and scrambled eggs ( mid) with sausage to keep me up.

Overall pretty good except no stroopwaffel

Finally! We land! After some deplaning and customs shenanigans the gang was all together. Esther, Belle, Cam, Jas, and myself were all heading to the train station ! We got a pretty suica card and got on our respective trains. The ride was a 1hr 15 to get to our stop. The hostel we booked needed up being on the water down the street from the sky tree! It was so pretty !

We then checked into the hostel, saw our rooms and felt the exhaustion hit. Belle, Jas, Cam, and I took a quick trip to FamilyMart down the street ( it’s was so cool) and got some food and went to bed. What a crazy day.