A group of us decided to meet at 10 and go to the beach. By the time everyone showed up, only Dwight and Jocelyn wanted to go to Namanoue Beach, so the 4 of us went. It was a hot beach day and the water was warm. We had a late junk food lunch at Mister Donut-an unbelievably good croissant muffin. A quick tour of the shopping mall and then back to the apartment to meet the Canadian group for Japanese dinner. From there we headed to the Budokan to organize the info...

More of the Canadians arrived last night-Fernando and his boys, Dwight, Jan and his sister Jocelyn. We met everybody and made plans to meet at 10. I woke with a headache today, so immediately took some meds. I guess training will have to wait until later. Met the Canadian group this morning and wandered down to the Kokusai Dori street to look around. It's a little hard to shop with a group, so everybody dispersed and did different things. Dave went with Rob to me...

Awake too early this morning and decided today is the day to train. Sensei Higaonna's dojo was quite busy. There's no air conditioning and 1 little fan blowing. After an hour and a half I was in overheat and we left. We went to the shopping mall today and bought a suitcase. Mission accomplished! Going for dinner with Rob and Adrienne tonight - definitely won't be drinking beer tonight. We went to a sweet little restaurant that Rob and Adrienne knew about. They ha...

Went to bed at about 12:30 and actually had a pretty decent sleep last night. I didn't really feel the need to have a nap, but we went back to the apartment to rest before going to meet Sensei Adrienne and Rob and Sensei Nakamura for Chinese dinner. We don't have internet here, the building can't accommodate it, so blogging will be spotty. We met Rob in the morning and did some wandering around before ending up at the vending machine restaurant. They now have an ...

In the new section of the Calgary airport. Wow, it looks just like the old section of the airport. Nice view of downtown! Oddly, they route you through part of the new section of the airport to end up in the old section of the airport. The only difference is that it's a longer walk, haha. 10 hours 20 minutes direct to Tokyo. First flight on the new Dreamliner. Definitely more legroom, more headroom and larger overhead bins. It's not often that you get an empty se...