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well, we are here
I'm about to fall over and go to sleep, so I'll keep this short.
Paranoia aside, 2 out of 4 flights are over. We got to the airport 2 hours early, and ended up spending an hour and a half waiting around for our flight. William from Whizbang was also there waiting for a flight, but he was going to Beijing for a week for a conference or something. Anyway, I slept through the first flight, a puddle-jumper to DC on a plane that had like 10 passengers tops. The second flight was on a 737. We had these two nutso flight attendant guys. The first was doing the "flight safety demonstration" as a comedy act, including pantomimes of swimming in the water and looking like an idiot who can't figure out how the seatbelt works. He got a round of applause afterwards for making everyone laugh. (He also yelled things like "get out of the aisle! make way for two skinny guys and a big fat drink cart!") The second flight attendant dude turned out to be fluent in Japanese. I'm not kidding. I was studying my kanji book because of the JLPT, and so he was like "Ah, studiyng Japanese I see. *covers up a kanji* What's this one?" I'm like "Eki. It means station." "*covers another* And this?" "Uh, it's 'ei', which sort of stands for England, like in eigo.." and he's like "Yeah, and it means hero by itself. I'll be back later to give you a written test!" When he came back later he said, "Nihongo no kaiwa dekimasu ka?" and so I ended up talking to him in Japanese for about 5 minutes. turns out he studied in college and in Japan for a year. It was sort of freaky. I wish more random gaijin would speak Japanese to me.
Anyway, we got off the second plane and made our way to the bookstore Eli wanted to go to, and bought some books, and then we met up with Ben at Alewife station, and we got sushi dinner with Ben and Tara and Regan and Greg. It was really good sushi dinner! We went to the hotel the wedding is taking place in, because there was a pool party, but I am sick, so I couldn't swim. I saw a lot of people, that was cool. Then because Tara is also sick and can't swim, we went over to this really good ice cream place that I am blanking on the name of. It had really good ice cream. It was a farm or something, and we got to pet the goats that were around there.
I guess I'm not keeping this short.
We came back here afterwards. Ben and Tara have two cats and a dog and all of them are really affectionate and playful. I got to play Typing of the Dead on the Dreamcast - they actually have these keyboard thingies so you type words to defeat these zombies. I was like, "But if the zombies were type-safe, this wouldn't be a problem, right?" We also got to meet Tara's boyfriend Dano, who is sitting behind me and Tara as we type up a storm.
Anyway, it's late, and we only had 4 hours of sleep last night, so I am calling it a night. Yay.
Paranoia aside, 2 out of 4 flights are over. We got to the airport 2 hours early, and ended up spending an hour and a half waiting around for our flight. William from Whizbang was also there waiting for a flight, but he was going to Beijing for a week for a conference or something. Anyway, I slept through the first flight, a puddle-jumper to DC on a plane that had like 10 passengers tops. The second flight was on a 737. We had these two nutso flight attendant guys. The first was doing the "flight safety demonstration" as a comedy act, including pantomimes of swimming in the water and looking like an idiot who can't figure out how the seatbelt works. He got a round of applause afterwards for making everyone laugh. (He also yelled things like "get out of the aisle! make way for two skinny guys and a big fat drink cart!") The second flight attendant dude turned out to be fluent in Japanese. I'm not kidding. I was studying my kanji book because of the JLPT, and so he was like "Ah, studiyng Japanese I see. *covers up a kanji* What's this one?" I'm like "Eki. It means station." "*covers another* And this?" "Uh, it's 'ei', which sort of stands for England, like in eigo.." and he's like "Yeah, and it means hero by itself. I'll be back later to give you a written test!" When he came back later he said, "Nihongo no kaiwa dekimasu ka?" and so I ended up talking to him in Japanese for about 5 minutes. turns out he studied in college and in Japan for a year. It was sort of freaky. I wish more random gaijin would speak Japanese to me.
Anyway, we got off the second plane and made our way to the bookstore Eli wanted to go to, and bought some books, and then we met up with Ben at Alewife station, and we got sushi dinner with Ben and Tara and Regan and Greg. It was really good sushi dinner! We went to the hotel the wedding is taking place in, because there was a pool party, but I am sick, so I couldn't swim. I saw a lot of people, that was cool. Then because Tara is also sick and can't swim, we went over to this really good ice cream place that I am blanking on the name of. It had really good ice cream. It was a farm or something, and we got to pet the goats that were around there.
I guess I'm not keeping this short.
We came back here afterwards. Ben and Tara have two cats and a dog and all of them are really affectionate and playful. I got to play Typing of the Dead on the Dreamcast - they actually have these keyboard thingies so you type words to defeat these zombies. I was like, "But if the zombies were type-safe, this wouldn't be a problem, right?" We also got to meet Tara's boyfriend Dano, who is sitting behind me and Tara as we type up a storm.
Anyway, it's late, and we only had 4 hours of sleep last night, so I am calling it a night. Yay.
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