Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Monday, January 23, 2017

Wins and Losses

WINS
- Flight attendant cracking bald fossil crispies
- Scratchy and snorelax leaving after one night
- Getting Blake's GoPro back after losing it out of a non zip pocket
- Getting Ash's phone back after leaving it in a taxi
- Learning to link and make it down the slope without stacking... too hard
- Surviving a massive earthquake
- 10ft of snow in Hakuba

LOSSES
- Blake getting stung at Travelex
- Train door opening on wrong side during midnight peak hour
- Rookie receptionist charging twice for Tokyo accommodation and not knowing how to refund
- Snorelax and Scratchy turning our room into a shared dorm
- Public holiday closures in Tokyo
- Missing trains in Hiroshima
- Crappy Osaka Restaurant
- Fried Udon and Tempura Veggies
- Red Bean Doughnut
- Cheese pastry concealing tuna
- Bowling over a little Asian boy on skis
- 10ft of snow in Hakuba

Likes and Dislikes

LIKES
- Japanese people.. so kind and humble
- Mario Kart Tour of Tokyo
- NYE antics
- SNOW... HAKUBA AND MORE SNOW
- Onsen
- Warm toilet seats
- Grape, Apple and Peach Zapp osher
- Complimentary kimonos and night dresses
- Banana hot chocolate from Starbucks
- Hot chocolate in a can
- Shinkansen and JR trains
- Family mart and 7/11 sangas... Japanese kewpie mayo!
- Prepackaged meals
- Sumo tv time
- Clean streets
- Miyajima deer
- Mac and cheese croquettes in Niseko
- Bamboo Forrest
- Moonlight bar Kyoto
- Dongle
- Streets of Dontonbori
- Pachinko and slots
- Hotel brekky in Hakodate

DISLIKES
- No bins!
- Lines for everything
- Restaurants and bars fit for 5 people
- Tiny bathrooms
- Needle showers
- Pillows made of rock
- JAFA'S
- No bacon and eggs
- Bad coffee
- CVC kids in Hakuba
- Taxi prices
- Constantly having to take shoes off