Day 1 - Traveling

Hey All!

I'm writing this currently after getting into my bed and breakfast spot. It was an exhausting day and after what Meghan and I have been through, we deserve the rest.

Meghan's mom had picked me up at 4 am because our flight was at 9. I didn't even sleep the night before (trying to finish a book before I left, hehe). We ate along the way and were having a hard time finding our departure location. We eventually found it and this was a picture of us waiting for our flight.

We had two layovers, one in Chicago and the other in Japan. The plane rides were the worst; I had major headaches throughout all those plane rides. It could be because I didn't eat enough but ughhhh... could not stand it. I could hardly talk to Meghan throughout the three flights. There were strangely no TV screens in front of us throughout all of them, too. Meghan was always at the window while I sat in the middle seat, with a stranger to the left of me. Our flight from Chicago to Japan was 11 hours, while the other two were 2 hours. In that specific flight, there was a nice old Japanese lady who sat next me. Meghan starting speaking Japanese to her, and then the lady was looking at both of us saying "Are you mother and daughter?" After the shock, I said we're the same age and continued a different conversation. Yeah, no, we soooooooo didn't want to bring up how Meghan did not even come close to looking like my mom, ha.

When we got to our tranfer in Japan, we ate some Japanese food. Apparently we could still use our American money so that's what I did. i.e. this pic:

After that I paid 9 American dollars to take a shower, it was a nice, clean environment and the shower felt so good after such a long day.

Then, we had to go on our last flight, final destination: Seoul, South Korea!

Besides the flight making me sick, and the fact that I had to use those throw up bags, the arrival felt fine, ha. We had to go through immigration and baggage before finally making a stop to the exchange money place. I had 400 dollars on me and got 4,3500 won back, you guys do the conversion. We had to take the train, so Meghan bought me the Korean Train Card called Ti-Money and put 10,000 won in it. Oh my god, so many Korean guys everywhere, literally. (Well, what else what I expect; it's South Korea.) I could've taken some pictures but I didn't want to seem too stalker-ish, hehe. We arrived at our train station and had to get a taxi to get to our b and b place. 

Meghan isn't as fluent in Korean as she is in Japanese but, she talked to taxi guy just fine. They spoke to each other quite extensively. After feeling like we were in a race track, we got to the place. Sadly, there were no elevators to the fourth floor, so we had to lift our heavy luggage up those steps.

This is me now :

Well, until tomorrow ya'll!

Sid