Back From Tokyo

Well Im back in Kuwait from Tokyo. We didnt really do much more in Japan after my last blog so not much to show other than pics of the family and me leaving. So here they are . . .


This one is a night we all went to dinner. Yakiniku is a favorite of ours right up with sushi. Maki's brother drove up to see us and to introduce his fiance and so we all went for Yakiniku one night. The pic is Maki's Mom, Maki's sister Kasumi, Maki's brother Kenji, his fiance Naomi, Mia, Ryota (Kasumi's son), and of course the white guy.

So I left Japan to head back to Kuwait on the 9th.



The trip back was . . . well interesting is a good word. Despite flying on company dollars I am never inclined to pay alot for a flight so I got a good $1000 savings by flying Thai Airlines. the trick for this trip was that on the return trip I had to spend a night in Bangkok. My flight was delayed so we landed after 10pm. Bangkok isnt what Id call a user-friendly airport so after walking the airport end to end twice I finally found someone to explain to me how to use the hotel voucher I had. So around midnight I made it through immigration, got my bag and got a shuttle to the hotel. I've stayed in worse places is about all I can say about the hotel. The people were very nice. Despite the fact that it was now 1:30am (or maybe because of that fact) the bellhop asked me no less than 6 times if he should send up the Thai masseuse. Having heard plenty of Thai masseuse stories and not being into that sort of thing (not to mention being dead tired) I politely declined, curled up on the bed and passed out. I kinda wished I had more time in Bangkok though. I'm told you can get a taxi to drive you to see all the sights of Bangkok in a couple hours for about $15. At least then I would have seen something other than dirty city streets and sleazy hotels. Instead I woke up at 9, saw the same stretch of dirty road from hotel to airport in the morning and caught a 11:50am flight to Dubai/Kuwait.

And so now here I sit in Kuwait again. No longer at the hotel anymore though, we've moved to a villa. It's a 5 bedroom, 6000 sq ft house. And even after furnishing it, it still costs us less than the hotel for even 3 people. I'll write more about it once I download the pics of my bedroom but this is what it looks like form the front . . . .