Due to my complete lack of creativity (I’m still blaming jet lag) I have decided to make a list of… lists.
See? Told you I was creative.
How to check in successfully
1. Have someone in your group (Hi Sarah!!) wear completely adorable clothing. We found that three pairs of pants, a huge Hello Kitty purse around your neck, a 40cm Piccachu under one arm and a fluro pink pillow under the other work well for getting you past stingy weight limits when your group of three is over by 18kg, especially when accompanied with an adorable fringe and pig tails.
2. Just smile sweetly when the airport ladies start going “Kawaii, kawaii” (“Cute, cute”) and you’ll get out of the extra weight fees.
3. When they ask you if you need any help getting to the gate, wave them off with a breezy “Oh, we’ll get there eventually”. This will secure you a map. (And we suspect this may have also helped us with the baggage limit, because they felt so sorry for us in all our patheticness.)
How to entertain yourself in an airport
1. Eat Macca’s (my last meal in Japan – sad huh?).
2. Go shopping.
3. Cartwheel and skip through the departure lounge. (Best attempted only when the entire place is deserted.)
How to navigate the maze that is Narita Airport
1. See earlier comment about smiling at the check in ladies to get a map.
2. Follow said map.
3. I think I should mention that we managed to get through the entire place INCLUDING in-airport train without getting lost. Sort of. But we didn’t miss the plane, so I guess we did okay. (Just a little bit of blantant self-congratulations there. But whatever, we so totally deserve it.)
How to entertain yourself on long flights (or at the very least stop yourself from going completely insane)
1. Sleep. (You’d think I’d follow my own stinking advice, but NOOOOO. Laura had to stay awake. All freaking night.)
2. a) Watch the movie, even if it’s crappy.
b) Laugh hysterically at all jokes, even if you don’t find them funny.
c) Insult the movie when that is just not possible. Analyse the movie. (Case in point: You, Me and Dupree, when Kate Hudon’s husband – in the movie, not real life, who actually looks a lot like Shrek in Shrek 2 when he took the Happily Ever After potion and became a human – launched himself across the dining room table in an attempt to kill his best friend. That was just disturbing. But analysing it took up quite a bit of time.)
3. Obsess about how much the guy in the seat behind you is typing, supposedly into his laptop ALL NIGHT. Realise at about 4am that it’s actually the window rattling and the guy in question is potentially in a coma.
Wow, that was pointless.
But whatever. I’m on holidays.
2 months?? Hello! They’re supposed to be pointless!!
And that concludes day two.