Well only a few more short weeks left until we fly out, I'm starting to get even more excited now (if that's even possible?). We exchanged our cash today through Cairns Money Exchange which is located on Sheild street and got the going rate of 82 yen to the AUD so after exchanging our $2700 we ended up with 221, 400.00 Yen!! WOW!! I feel so rich with all these note lol, will have to get use to the currency (although I got a great currency converter on my iPhone...

Well it's exactly one month until my big two week trip to Japan which has been nearly two years in the making *sigh* still can't believe that I will finally be there this time next month. Just to give u some background information we originally had our trip planned for march 2011 with a couple of our mates but unfortunately three weeks prior to our scheduled holiday sadly the tsunami hit and we were forced to cancel our plans and had decided to wait another 12 m...