Holiday Inn Tobu Narita

... did no sets today and KC and I played Monopoly on his Nintendo DS &#8211; I have no idea what that is but we had a good time.<br><br>Yesterday was my day off and I spent it cooking. Mel and KC and I have a routine where we often will fix dinner for the other guys when they are working and we have a day off. (kinda like at home to my guys! (you know who you are!!) like to ...

November 13, 2009<br><br><br><br>The past two days have been perfect Santa weather! Cloudy, cool with just a little breeze. Perfect! Yesterday was so fun. I spent the day seeing all sorts of people. It has always been fascinating to watch people and see what they do when they don't know they are being watched! Young couples who are just getting to know each other. Older couples who have love and laughed (or cried) together for many years. Families with kids, and maybe one on the ...

... time I was quite confused! Now, it&#8217;s just part of the system. Then around noon they told us that we were going to be cancelled for the whole day. The other system we had to get accustomed to is that if we are being paid for the day, we stay there. So from noon until 5:00 p.m. we sat in the dressing ...

... style. There are large electric pots on the table with boiling water or broth. Then thinly sliced carrots, enoki mushrooms, and bokchoy cabbage are served ready to put in the pot. After that comes very thin sliced frozen meat, usually beef. You are to take the meat slices and swish it around in the boiling pot &#8211; shabu-shabu is Japanese for swishing. There are also two dipping sauces, Ponzu (made of soy and citrus) and Sesame ...

November 5, 2009<br><br><br><br>Yesterday was the easiest "orientation day" that we have ever had &#8211; it's great having all three Santas returning. We breezed through all of our stuff and even got to skip over some stuff! Yeah!<br><br>We got to costume fittings and it was hot in the room. These folks sure like their rooms warm! So they put us in our costumes and this year we had a surprise &#8211; padding in the ...

... different location (thankfully out of sight from the last). "Ohhh, free samples??" we say to the girl with a shot taking gesture she recognizes and a slight smirk to each other. Hmmm, lets try this one... <br><br>S...<br>

... Terminal 2, and got off the JR Rail train. Once off we quickly found signs directing us to the Keisei Line. This turned out to be a 500 meter walk through a tunnel, to what seemed like an abandoned station. We found a nice gentleman at the ticket/information booth who helped us determine we were in the right place and we purchased our tickets. 220 yen each. He also helped us take our luggage down some stairs, as the down escalator appeared to be under ...