Okay, so I've been a bad blogger. I am usually very good about updating when I am abroad, but thanks to my dad's "go, go, go" traveling attitude I literally could not do anything other than go to sleep when I got back to the hotel every night! Heres a quick recap of the rest of the trip:
We saw the Japanese macaques on our last morning in Kyoto. It was quite a hike up a mountain, but the views at the end were worth it along with the cuteness of the little monkeys. We took the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo, but unfortunately couldn't see Mt. Fuji due to weather. We drug my dad to DisneySea (the second Disney park in Toyko) and went on Tower of Terror and other fun Disney rides. We took a walking tour of the Harajuku district and the Shinjuku district in Tokyo and saw a ton of cool buildings and areas. We had sushi at Sushi Yasuda, which is one of the highest rated restaurants in all of Tokyo! We explored a few other districts of Tokyo, including going to a mega-electronics store! We went to the Robot Restaurant (OMG this was weird). We went to a cat cafe and pet/fed many adorable cats. I went to Disneyland on a national holiday (this timing was a big mistake, who wants to stand in line for Winnie the Pooh for 2.5 hours?). Disney was great, but I had to miss a handful of rides like Thunder Mansion, the Haunted Mansion, and everything in Fantasyland because there was no way I was waiting in line that long. I waited 80 mins for Space Mountain and doing that once was my limit. Thank goodness there were a few rides with a bit shorter lines and Splash Mountain has a single rider line so I got to bypass the 150 minute line there.
On Monday morning in Tokyo I was awoken to two earthquakes about 15 minutes apart of magnitude 4.6 and 6.0. Thank goodness nothing happened and I somewhat used to earthquakes! I took the airport limousine (aka a bus) to the Narita airport and had a pretty uneventful time. I asked the woman at the gate if there were any empty rows, and lucky for me there were! She moved me there and I got a whole row to myself to lay down and sleep. So lucky of me to have that going both directions! It makes international flights so easy. When I arrived in Chicago I went straight through customs thanks to Global Entry (didn't even have to stop at a person!) and got to my gate without problems. The flight to Detroit was also uneventful. When I arrived in Detroit I had to wait over an hour for my sister to get there because she got lost somehow.
Transitioning to Michigan time was not a problem. If anything I want to go to bed early and am waking up a little earlier than normal which is great considering I soon have to wake up at absurd times. We started orientation for M3 year on Tuesday and it went pretty well. It's a bit scary to think that as of Tuesday I will be a part of a patient care team, but I'm sure it will go fine. This weekend is for getting everything in order and catching up on sleep before surgery begins!
We saw the Japanese macaques on our last morning in Kyoto. It was quite a hike up a mountain, but the views at the end were worth it along with the cuteness of the little monkeys. We took the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo, but unfortunately couldn't see Mt. Fuji due to weather. We drug my dad to DisneySea (the second Disney park in Toyko) and went on Tower of Terror and other fun Disney rides. We took a walking tour of the Harajuku district and the Shinjuku district in Tokyo and saw a ton of cool buildings and areas. We had sushi at Sushi Yasuda, which is one of the highest rated restaurants in all of Tokyo! We explored a few other districts of Tokyo, including going to a mega-electronics store! We went to the Robot Restaurant (OMG this was weird). We went to a cat cafe and pet/fed many adorable cats. I went to Disneyland on a national holiday (this timing was a big mistake, who wants to stand in line for Winnie the Pooh for 2.5 hours?). Disney was great, but I had to miss a handful of rides like Thunder Mansion, the Haunted Mansion, and everything in Fantasyland because there was no way I was waiting in line that long. I waited 80 mins for Space Mountain and doing that once was my limit. Thank goodness there were a few rides with a bit shorter lines and Splash Mountain has a single rider line so I got to bypass the 150 minute line there.
On Monday morning in Tokyo I was awoken to two earthquakes about 15 minutes apart of magnitude 4.6 and 6.0. Thank goodness nothing happened and I somewhat used to earthquakes! I took the airport limousine (aka a bus) to the Narita airport and had a pretty uneventful time. I asked the woman at the gate if there were any empty rows, and lucky for me there were! She moved me there and I got a whole row to myself to lay down and sleep. So lucky of me to have that going both directions! It makes international flights so easy. When I arrived in Chicago I went straight through customs thanks to Global Entry (didn't even have to stop at a person!) and got to my gate without problems. The flight to Detroit was also uneventful. When I arrived in Detroit I had to wait over an hour for my sister to get there because she got lost somehow.
Transitioning to Michigan time was not a problem. If anything I want to go to bed early and am waking up a little earlier than normal which is great considering I soon have to wake up at absurd times. We started orientation for M3 year on Tuesday and it went pretty well. It's a bit scary to think that as of Tuesday I will be a part of a patient care team, but I'm sure it will go fine. This weekend is for getting everything in order and catching up on sleep before surgery begins!
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