Jet Lag sucks! October 19th

I passed our around 11 last night and woke up at 5:30am..yuck! Luckily I heard Sarah's door open around 6:30, so we went down to breakfast in the hotel. Breakfast consisted of Croissants and rolls...no fruit or anything else. After our meal of carbs, we decided to go explore. Not much was open at 7:30 in the morning, but everyone was rushing to work. The sidewalks are so crowded, you have to watch where you're going or you'll get run over..by a bicycle! There are vending machines everywhere, which have water, juice, coffee and BEER! We walked around for a couple hours, but even that was hard because we couldn't read the signs, so we had no idea what anything was! It's wierd to walk around and see only a sea of dark colors. They all wear dark suts and have dark hair. Seriously, all the men today were wearing the same black suit, only with a different pattern on their dark blue ties. If I didn't already stand out with my blonde hair, I definately will with my bright shirts! We passed a few gutsy people in colors, but only like 1 in 25. It's wierd. We found a bookstore open and looked around, trying to find something in English, haha no such luck. We passed a karaoke bar and planned to go in tonight but we are too exhausted. After exploring for a coupe hours we came back to take naps. Sarah and I planned on meeting around noon (it was 10:30)...well neither of us woke up until 5:30, hahaha OOPS! By that point it was too late for us to do anything productive, we were planning on setting up our bank accounts when we got up. It's frustrating that Nova isn't very helpful, the packet they gave us helps but how do we set up a bank account when noone speaks our language?! Well after our "nap" we woke up Sara, the other girl in our hotel, and found a place to eat dinner. It's really neat, most places have models of the food with numbers on them, so you decide what you want, go to the machine, put your money in and push the number. It prints out a paper and you give it to the chef. :) It's easy for us because we don't have to try to communicate but it's also a mystery of what we're eating! I chose a noodle soup with "something" on top. That "something" ended up being squid! It was actually really good, a bit chewy though. The noodles were so amazing! It was very filling and only cost 370 Yen..which is less than $4.00. It gets dark SO early here, like around 6pm! After dinner we just came back to the hotel to try to get used to the time difference! OH, I almost forgot! On our way home from dinner we passed a guy with his pants down, just casually peeing on a building!! haha, who does that?! I miss you all already! Download Skype, it's free, I talked to a few people today and it sounds like you guys are next door, it is so clear! :)
Russell's words of the day:
Excuse me-Sumimasen (Sue-me-ma-sen)
Good Evening-Konbanwa (Cone-
bawn-wa)