Arrival in Tokyo

We arrived after an 8 hour flight from Brisbane - took a bus with the group to our hotel - appropriately enough our guide & translator, Naromi, was born in the year of the cow!

A buffet dinner followed and we all stuffed our plates with everything in sight, including a few desserts...

It is night now, and we are readying for tomorrow`s jaunt to the Australian Embassy (dress sharply) and the MLA (I am sure I will find out what that means tomorrow). After that we are going to visit some retail shops selling Japanese beef - and finish up the evening with a visit to what the Australian`s refer to as a "B-Hole" - which I later figured out was a "Beer Hall". Those accents...