Geek Out!

Okay so what does one do in Tokyo? Well if you are self-identified nerds like Dustin and me, you visit gaming establishments. First on the list was the Pokemon Center. About an hour on a train took us to the east side of Tokyo to the Hamamatsucho area. There we found one of my favorite childhood games and one of Dustin's... well, he still plays these games. He's gotta catch 'em all...

Another stop on our tour was the Square Enix store. We traveled on a few subways and finally made it to the Yoyogi area. Square Enix is the developer behind two of our favorite game franchises: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. It was really cool!

Huge Sephiroth in the floor!

Kingdom Hearts

Dustin, Tonberry, and Cactar

Yes, yes, I know. How old are we? We were like little kids at DisneyWorld.

Tokyo

So I've been home inIwakuni for 2 weeks and now I am on the road again! Hopefully this will be the last work trip for a while... :)

Actually I have really enjoyed all the traveling. I wish Dustin could have been with me for all of it, but it was still amazing (and scary) to be forced to explore Japan. This trip is for a two day conference in Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday. So this time we planned ahead and took vacation before and after.

After working a full day on Friday we took a taxi, train, bus, plane, another bus, another train, and then a long walk to get to the Yokota Air Force base in Tokyo. It was a long night of traveling, but meant we could have a whole extra day to explore the world's most populated metropolitian area.

BLT with amazing mayo/sauce

We ate at a convenience store before quickly jumping on a bus to the airport. Yes, I said convenience store. We would never think of eating convenience store food in the states unless it was a last resort or we wanted to call into work the next day. Here convenience stores have great fresh food. My sandwich was pretty tasty and had a spicy mayo sauce. Paired with a cup of grapefruit juice made it quite a tasty dinner!