So today we were planning on starting early anyway. But we were both wide awake at about 4AM. We couldn’t really get back to sleep either. It ended up with Jamie creating a bit of a mess in my bed. Nothing quite like crusty sheets.

We made it to the subway for 9:30AM and through a variety of trains got to Tokyo Disneyland. We ended up at the train station bit where a friendly lady guided us to where the hell we were meant to go. Today we were doing Tokyo Disneysea, tomorrow we are doing Tokyo Disneyland. We would have spread it out a bit but that’s how the tickets work. So we spent the day in Disneysea. Well we spent the bulk of the day queuing to be honest. We got a fast pass to the ‘Towa of Tera’, sorry, ‘Tower of Terror’ and then queued for the Indianan Jones ride and then another ride. We went back and did the tower which I must admit although not based on the ‘Twilight Zone’ stuff it had a great drop sequence. We then queued an hour and twenty minutes for the ‘Toy Story’ ride. We watched a couple of shows and then it decided to piss down, which actually was quite useful as it thinned out the crowds. We ate at a sort of buffet thing which was a hell of a price but was cheaper than some options.

Came back to the hotel at about 10PM. Picked up some munchies and beer. Must admit feel fairy tired after the whole day, but have to do a pretty much identical one tomorrow.

The alarm was set for 9:30, my body clock wasn’t. So at about 11:30 we finally made it out. Jamie was dressed as some sort of preppie, I was dressed as an extra from a death metal band as usual. We walked towards Shinjuku and admired it’s true chaos in daylight.

Hopped on a metro and went to Ginza. The Sony building. Which wasn’t as interesting as I remember it, so did the whole thing in about twenty minutes. Walked round Ginza for a bit. All very pricey. Hopped on a train again and went to Akiharbara. Then spent about an hour trying to find this ‘Maid Cafe’, which Jamie was obsessed about. In the end we didn’t find the exact one as it appeared to no longer exist. However we found this chain on the second floor of a tower block. Now I’ve experienced some strange shit in my life but this really takes the biscuit. There are a bunch of 30 year old woman dressed as 13 year old school girls. Now I just don’t know where it’s coming from. In the restaurant was a couple of guys, a French couple and then a bunch of whats best described as fucking weirdos. One was I’m sure just going through a bus timetable and giggling to himself. There were two others who I’m sure their penises had only ever been used for pissing and self mutilation. Anyway, this ‘Maid’ came to our table and we had to do this little ‘song’ for the candle. Then we ordered some chicken stuff. Jamie went for the set menu which included a photo with the maids. The food was okay. I had a giant beer. Considering I hadn’t drunk anything other than a sip of water since 5AM it was well required. Anyway, after food it just got fucking weirder. The maids puton this show which basically consisted of one standing on a stage lip-syncing to a very loud song, while several of the scary people (who new every move) danced around with glow sticks. It was a weird experience. Very Japanese.

We wandered round Akiharbara for a bit and visited several arcades. Eneded up playing this new type dance game thing which was very fun. Went back to the hotel, felt very tired again so had a little nap.

Then ventured out. We decided to eat traditional Japanese tonight, so found a place which had the dishes in plastic shown outside in the windows. The menus were all very Japanese, I’m very pleased I practiced my “Regarding Chicken, does it exist?”, phrases. I ended up with a rather nice chicken and tomato dish. Very reasonable price as well.

We then ventured off to find a bar. Which we found in about 30 feet. Sat down. All the menus were in Japanese but they understood the concept of ‘large beer’, Asahai. I like this bar. I had two, Jamie had one, it came to 1400 Yen which isn’t divisable by 3 so they didn’t charge me for one. I’ll be back to this place again.

So all in all, a very strange but yet very enjoyable day.

Most of the day is a bit of a blur due to me being up for about thirty hours on the trot. So started off first thing with delivering the dog to the new kennels, she seemed somewhat ancious but I’m sure she’ll fit in just fine.

Then mother arrived and moaned that we were not ready. She then talked about her dull life for about the full hour we were on the way to Bristol airport. Sat at airport. Got a text from mother that the directions I gave her were wrong, well at least she had something to moan about. Got on the first plane to Amsterdam, journey is about four minutes.

Sat in Amsterdam airport for a bit then boarded the 777 to Narita. I watched Les Mis, okay I still think that Russelle Crowe is a bit of a twat but it was a hell of a film. I tried to sleep on the flight, this failed. I even tried to aid it by drinking about seven bottles of those wine miniture things. It was actually avery good Chillien number. Still no avail. The food wasn’t bad. But the flight overall was as boring as hell.

Arrived at Narita airport. Baggage also arrived which was a plus. Picked up the wireless pocket thing we ordered. Good Japanese efficiency there. Got the Narita Express, which isn’t that express. Got to Shinjuku, got on metro system. Found the hotel. All checked into a very nice little suite. We had a bit of a power nap for a few hours. Then ventured out, all a bit scary and very busy towards the main Shinjuku, we ended up in a small place just round the corner from the hotel. Ate pizza, drank lots of Japanese beer. Bought what I thought was milk, it wasn’t, will need to attempt that one again. So now going to call it a fairly early night as been a very very long day.

Started this morning being rather lazy, actually been like that pretty much all day. Didn’t get up until the early afternoon. No we didn’t spend all morning having sex, Jamie kept complaining that jamming his cock up and down to various tunes on Radio 2 was not the way to arouse him.

I got and put the alarm sensor back on the wall and did some packing. Not too bad, the only things we appear to be missing are shaving gel and toothpaste. Everything has been charged up, I’ve got the boarding passes, sorted out the dog food into nice individual bags and got the neighbour to stick the bin out. Fed the lizards and topped up their water bowls. Watered the plants (they will still die). Printed out various directions.

So that’s it really, just need to drop the dog off and off we go.

So if all goes to plan…..my next update will be coming from Tokyo. If it doesn’t it means the plane has crashed and we are probably dead. In which case please look after the dog.

Didn’t have a great deal planned for today, which was a good idea as I didn’t get an awful lot done. So slept, walked the dog and went to Tesco’s. As we didn’t really need anything for next week I bought huge amounts of chocolate bars, which is the standard holiday food. Still it still came to over sixty quid.

Came back and had lunch. Still needed to obtain more Yen for Jamie and a comb. Tesco had combs but I wasn’t spending a fiver on a comb just because it had the signature of some coiffured twat on it. So ventured into town, went to the post office which was bound to have Yen, it didn’t. Went to Thomas Cooke, which also failed to have any. The lady there though said to try M&S, which I thought was rather a strange idea. However, behind all the sensible underwear lurked an exchange booth where they preceded to have plenty of Yen. So that was all very satisfying.

Oh and I did manage to get a comb, in Boots. It was still 99p for a bit of bloody plastic tat, but at least it was twat signature free.

So last day of work for a couple of weeks. So basically it was just chasing round people finishing stuff off, nothing too dramatic. Managed to get up to Unit 6 on the Japanese course, may do a little bit more on the weekend but will probably leave it around there for now.

Walked the dog. Went to pump. Tried to do a copy of Jamie’s passport which failed due to the colour printer not being used for a year and all the inks have dried up. Printed out a map of how to get from the train station to the hotel and another one of the Yokohama bus system, which is so small I can’t read it, but at least I feel I’ve made the effort.

It’s all just so much easier now of course, we are going to be offline for about the duration of the flight and that’s about it. We’ll probably pick up data sim cards there and we are taking a mini router, so we’ll have full wireless access in the room. So any info we want we can obtain there. I did dig out my old passport collection last night, I went to Japan first in 1996 and then again in 1999, so 14 years since the last visit. I’m looking forward to going back to Yokohama, it will be interesting to see how much its changed and whats happened to the old ‘English Tavern’. I have a lot of old memories there, could be quite emotional.

So today was still working on database stuff, but hey only one day left on it now. It is all coming together but it is a bit chaotic. Got my hair cut, I seem to have a bit of an ’emo’ fringe, I can dress in black and get all depressed, I think I quite like that idea.

Weather was piss poor, so apart from hair cut I didn’t venture out other than to pick bum boy up from work.

So spent quite a long work day dipping in and out of database stuff waiting for feedback and then going through more Japanese lessons. I’m now about halfway through Unit 5.

Halfway through the afternoon the Zen line dropped and resynced for no apparent reason. It’s now got a 12db margin and is syncing to just over 2mbps, which is just complete shit. I’m not going to piss around with it now but certainly if it continues that way I’ll log a fault with Zen as it used to be about 7mbps.

Watched the first episode of the new ‘Apprentice’, spent most of the time shouting at the telly and saying ‘what a complete cock’.

So one more work day to come and then I must really think about packing, I’ll think about it, but probably won’t do it.