Park Hyatt Tokyo

Hello!!

I am finally back and trying to settle in. Starting my 20 million loads of washing. YAY.

Anyway.

D and I decided to take a quick trip to Japan after he finished a huge project at work, just to take a minute out and relax.

The whole work/engagement thing has been so much lately and we just wanted to get away from it and spend some quality time together.

We took an overnight flight and flew Singapore Airlines.

Those of you who know me know I dislike Qantas with a passion ( been screwed over one too many times).

I recommend Singapore over any other airlines.

The service/meals/seats are miles above other airlines. Especially Qantas.

Singapore don't treat vegetarians like second class citizens which is nice.

It was also really nice to have a full bed to sleep on.

Here is the standard photo before take off that I like to take on all holidays. D hates it.

I think its fun to take a photo of us together before we leave. He doesn't. Anyway he took one of me and sooked about taking one together. Typical men. Boo.

Homie behind me likes pointing to his forehead. He did it a lot during the flight.

Here is our room in Tokyo. We stayed at the Park Hyatt. It's where they filmed Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and that other girl...whatshername Scarlett Johansen.

We stayed here last time in Tokyo and the service is second to none...worldwide...I say this even though I haven't been to hardly anywhere to compare. hahahhaha. I just imagine!

Do you like the leaves above the bead? Yeah me too. I often dream of leaves in my bedroom as a feature.

I think they were actually real but I was too scared to scrunch one up. hahaha!

Here is our bathroom. It had a BIDET. This is my 5th time to Japan and I only just tried one for the first time. It was SCARY but not as bad as a though. If you don't want to hear about it move on.

So, I thought the bidet would shoot the water straight into my a hole and I'd go screaming across the room. But actually, it's like a low pressure stream that shoots at the top of your crack and trickles down. You can adjust the water pressure. It was also warm water. I thought it would be cold.

Then there is a fan system that dries you off.

It was odd. I didn't feel violated like I thought I would. I'm not sure if I would use it again.

Have you guys used bidets?

How did they make you feel? I WANT DETAILS!!

Below is our little gifts we got. You get new gifts every 3rd day.

Here we have some herb water in "rose hips" and chamomile flavour.

There is some sort of Japanese sweet. I'm not sure what its called but it was good.

Does anyone know what it is?

It was all different flavours like green tea, sesame, sweet potato...hmm

Down below is the New York Deli where we had brunch nearly everyday we were there.

Just squint and you can kind of see inside the delicatessen. ( on both sides and there was a side on the right too)

The view on the other side looking out...

Here I am scoffing down.

You can see I am STILL wearing Chanel Elephant polish. I think I'm finally ready to move on for a couple of weeks though. It has been about 6 weeks straight.

Some lovely babaganoush...Is that the right spelling?

Looks a bit like spew doesn't it? Lovely tasty spew.

Let me tell you.

I ordered this little strawberry cake thinking it would taste like shiz. When a cake looks pretty, it very very rarely tastes as good as it looks.

This tasted amazing.

I think I could go as far as to say it was the best cake I have ever tried in my life.

I should of bought 100.

Mmmm I will miss you strawberry cake. I will.

It had inside the spongey bit some sort of beautiful strawberry sauce.

Here I am pretending to buy a train ticket. If you look close, I already have the tickets in my hand but D made me reenact the process for a photo.

Here I get on a train at Harajuku station.

What a cute looking couple.

I noticed just then if you look to the left of the picture you can see a girl in a weird pink get up.

I am finding the whole japan/photo/blog thing overwhelming.

Its taking like 30 years to go through photos. Blogger is taking 50 years to upload them.

ARGH!

On the upside, I was pretty excited to have a real soy latte this morning. Pretty excited indeed!

I must go and check up on everyones blogs too!

I am v excited to see what you have all been up to!

Hope you all had a lovely ANZAC long weekend. I got to catch up with some family and my uncle showed me my grandfathers old hat. I got to try it on.

He passed when I was 2 or 3 so my memories of him are very limited.

It was so cool to see his hat. It was a very cool paperboy kind of style one and I'm glad it has been kept after all these 25+ years.

I also got to wear my other grandfathers war medal.

Both my parents went to the dawn service and then my dad let me wear it after that.

It was a good day. A very weird one seeing as though I came home from Japan that day and thinking about how my grandfather was in Japan all those years ago.

He was posted there after the war on some sort of peace keepers mission and fell in love with the country. He made lots of Japanese friends and I think he would be happy to look down on me and see that I got to love the country that he loved all those years ago.

Do you guys have any ANZAC stories? Please share!

Over and out.

xoxo

CS