Surviving.

After that one hurling incident everything's been fine. I've just been very careful not to eat too much. Which is MUCH more difficult then you might think. Everything tastes so damn good.

Yesterday the 2 of us went out to some nice buffet dinner at this place called "Conrad". All you can eat seafood, grilled meat, deserts... one of the worst places to go when you want to manage your eating, but I managed to enjoy it anyway. Fresh lobster that practically dropped meat out of the shell, fresh sashimi, shrimp, oysters. They had grills outside where you can choose what you want on it and the chefs will grill it for you right there. They had mango crepes, souffles (spelling?), creme boulees, fresh strawberries that you could dip under a rolling chocolate fountain. I shit you not, I was tempted to gourge myself again and risk throwing up another time just to try everything there. But I was a good boy and practiced restraint.

It hasn't all been fun and games. Been visiting relatives...both dead and alive. I visited my grandparent's grave the other day. First time I've been there since I last saw them alive. I did the whole buddist thing with the incense. No idea what I was doing but hopefully if my grandparents are out there listening, I didn't mess up too much.

We managed to prepare another 130+ party favors on this side too. At this point I'm getting really good at making these things. Of course no matter how fast I get, both my mom and my fiancee seem to always outpace me. My clumsy fingers just can't thread the ribbon fast enough.

Hey I never mentioned it took me nearly 48 hours to get here in the first place. Japan Airlines sent us all to a hotel for the night after they found a fuel guage they couldn't fix in time. So I ended up spending my first full day of travel sitting around by myself at Ala Moana Hotel....behind some 400 Japanese people. The next day they finally got me rebooked on another plane out. 8 hours in the air to Japan. a SIX hour layover in Japan, and then finally another 4 hours to get here. What an ordeal. I managed to read a complete novel in that time and worked my way through a bag of jolly rancher candy.

Until next time...