Day 0.5

I made it to Japan!  The flight was 10.5 hours and I sat by two boys who may or may not have used the bathroom the whole way(they never left their seats).  I was concerned.  After 10 and a half hours of eating lots of just plain yummy food ( Ben & Jerry's was served!), watching movies and tv shows,    keeping tabs on who went to the bathroom and, oh yeah, studying Japanese for a whole hour, I arrived in Narita!  I then exchanged my money for yen and took the airport limo (a shuttle bus) to what I thought was supposed to drop me off to the Hilton where I would meet up with my parents.  Being who I am, things did not go according to plans.  I got off of the bus and lo and behold the Hilton was nowhere in sight.  I was then told that I could take a complimentary bus to the Hilton but when I got to the bus stop I saw that the last bus had left 10 minutes ago.  So there I was in a crowded plaza in the middle of Tokyo with no cell phone.  After asking around in my bad Japanese I found that I had two options, take a taxi or walk 15 minutes to the hotel.  Thinking that 15 minutes is not far at all, I decided to pick the latter, did I mention that it was raining?  After asking some very nice people and a policeman where the Hilton was, my year of Japanese studying paid off and I finally found the Hilton.
It was the nicest Hilton I have ever set foot in.  Of course after a long flight a 2 hour bus ride and a 20 minute walk in the rain I was not looking like all the other guests in the hotel.  Some nice worker came up to me either thinking that I was a vagabond that was lost or that i was a lost foreigner and helped me to my room where I met up with my parents *my dad was sleeping.