Meriken Park Oriental Hotel Kobe

Hello family and friends! And greetings from Kobe, Japan! This is my first trip to the Orient and I'm so excited and feel so blessed to be here. I hope you enjoy reading about my journey and experiences here as they will be life altering for me, in that the experiences will all be new and exciting. I arrived in Japan last night at 6:45 pm local time. My flight from Detroit to Osaka was delayed by an hour but we still arrived just 15 minutes after our original scheduled arrival. The airport wa...

Hello again! First of all, I was remiss in detailing a few things from the trip here. We had a layover in Detroit for about 3.5 hours. So, we went to Chilis for lunch, then to the NWA lounge. Our flight was supposed to leave at 3:35 but was delayed until 4:45. The gate agent said to check about 3. So, we checked periodically until 4 and heard the same. All of a sudden, at about 4:10 they make a final boarding call announcement for our flight! Debi and I were freaking out and grabbed our stuff...

Today began with another interesting Japanese buffet breakfast. On the buffet you can find anything from fermented tofu, to baby bananas, and an omelette station to chicken nuggets and fries--for breakfast! Some of the group (Pat, Tim...) are not such fans of the Japanese cuisine so thank goodness for fries and ketchup! On another note, when they got in last night Tim decided to go for a run. He thought it seemed pretty straightforward so he took off...and then he was lost. He couldn't figure...

Well, we just finished the first full day of our global communications conference. It was such a great experience to be in the room and hearing from so many smart people. We started with a few corporate presentations and then did an icebreaker. We had everyone write down a question that began with "Why does..." Then we collected the papers, folded in half, and gave them to someone else. That person had to write on the back an answer to the question--but without looking at the question! Their ...