Current mood:

exhausted

And we're back!


Hi everybody! This hot and stuffy Monday afternoon sees me back on American soil. There is no place like home, right? Right! Until you look around home and realize you have no food and a PILE of laundry to do. But I can easily avoid those chores by updating thee old livejournal. Yeah!

Unfortunately I left my travel notebook here in the States so I don't know how much detail I can give you about the trip. Alot of stuff happening in a short amount of time.

The flight to Japan wasn't near as bad as I was expecting. 13 hours is a long time to be in one spot, especially for those possessing the short attention span that I do. I got to share a row of four seats with two rotating members of a large Chinese family traveling together. At one point their little five year old fell asleep on my feet. The poor thing looked so peaceful I didn't have the heart to move her so I just crashed out too for a bit.

Airplane movies have been on a long running streak of suck. But this flight changed that in one movie: Curious George. That movie kicked all sorts of ass! As a kid I never got into the books but George is so damn cute in this movie that I was just sucked in. It even made me like Jack Johnson, who up until that point I couldn't really stand. And now I have to wait until September 26th to buy the DVD. Do'h!

I landed in Narita airport on Wednesday afternoon and met up with Trenisha and went into Tokyo to the Z-1 Max office. We taped a few promos with Amazing Kong (together the three of us make up REM-Real Evil Makers) and one promo with my brother, then it was off to the hotel for some rest. Thursday found us at the Pride dojo for four hours of training. I learned some new things and got a great workout in the ring. After a few hours rest a group of us went into Roppongi and had dinner and watched the recent Hustle show at Brainbusters. Evil!

Friday I spent part of the morning at the internet cafe catching up, drinking hot chocolate and snagging numerous Curious George stickers. Friday night I traveled with Steve and da' Panther Claw to Shinjuku Face for our first round of matches against the Dream Catchers. I faced and beat Saki Maemura with the Shimmering Warlock and Amazing Kong put away Nanae Takahishi after an INSANE battle. HIKARU was able to barely squeak out a win over our girl Panther Claw but Konger made things right by holding her down and cutting off her hair. If this wrestling thing doesn't work out at least REM has a back career in hair fashions.

Saturday we made the five hour trek up to Niigata for the "Destructive King 1st Anniversary Mourning & Naohiro Hoshikawa Encouragement" show. REM faced the Dream Catchers of Takahishi, HIKARU and Natsuki*Head (or who I like to call Captain Kicks Alot). Panther Claw took home the win for REM.

Sunday comes and it is time to head home. Da' Claw and I cruised around Shiba Park a bit before Steve and I headed to the airport. Our flight to Detroit was PACKED and I had the ultimate misfortune of being seated in the window seat next to the worst smelling human of all time. Within twenty minutes of being seated next to me, I have tears in my eyes and vomit in my throat. The flight attendant actually had to pull me up into the galley before I puked in front of everyone. Thankfully the woman was moved and seated with her family and I got a new non-smelly person to sit next to. You know a person smells bad when they move and their scent actually stings your eyes. UGH. The movies sucked so I tried to sleep as much as I could. The flight home from Detroit was almost great until we arrived at the airport 30 minutes early and was forced to circle in the air for awhile. Blah.

But we're back! And jet lagged! WHOOOOOOOOO!