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4/8/09

we are in JAPAN. Yes I said Japan and yes I know I said we are going to be in Taiwan first, and we will, but right now we are waiting on our connecting flight for two hours. Yay. For any of you insanely interest my first international purchase was some oolong tea. I have bottled oolong tea, something I think is almost unheard of in the US and most of the others have beer. I decided I was too dehydrated from the flight to have alchoholic beverages plus I wanted to be awake when we landed, I am so tired despite having slept for a good bit, and its 4:30 p.m. local time. So far the trip hasn't make the world seem bigger and badder if anything just a bit less interesting. The NRT doesn't seem much different from the Charlotte Airport save there are a lot more Asian looking people who are speaking a language I don't really comprehend. As one of my fellows said, those are our trees, or they look the same as the ones back home. And its true those Fir trees look like our Fir trees and about the same height.