yes, back home from the land of the Rising Sun and been online since yesterday. So now I will try to recollect all the places we went there (since my memory is as big as a fish which goes *POOF* in 30 seconds) and tell you guys how it went:

DAY 1:
-arrived in Narita Airport around 3pm . Goodness it was windy, cloudy, drizzling and COOOOLD. It was totally a different season back here. >_> Luckily I wore a jacket and was able to anticipate the weather 
-arrivied at the Keio Plaze hotel, Shinjuku at around 6pm. This is where I realized that Narita is actually not IN tokyo. Mwahaha. Anyway, lotsa people were booked at the same time with us, since we came during Golden Week (it's like a week of consecutive holidays for Japan). The hotel was really nice and the people accomodating :). 
-We were also lucky enough to be near a shopping district by the hotel, so we were able to eat a real Japanese dinner. Heh. I also tried my luck in ordering in japanese (since that was what I was so anxious about.) But then, the waitress gave us an english menu so all was well :D Although i did tumble and stumble with my words ^^;
-QUIA HAD A TUMOR!!! TT^TT Quia's 2gig memory card got corrupted *sob* and the first day pictures are gone. I had to go buy a new CF card in their electronic shop around that area. IT WAS HUUUUUGE!! O.o And I'm soo envious that their fones are cheap and they just let it display outside! *Wanting a motorola krazr after seeing them*
*saw Sarah in the airport! :D

DAY 2:
- went around the tour spots in tokyo. Our guide was funny, but her english accent was nice.
-Tokyo Tower: It was tall!! And we were lucky to see mt. Fuji! they say it's actually rare to see it from the tower since the weather lately was cloudy. Yeah!!
-Tokyo Imperial Palace: We just walked at the front, we weren't able to go inside (our tours were all rushed T^T) oh and, Sarah was also at the same tour with us :D
-We went to this Buddhist shrine (sorry not good with names TT^TT) and it was packed with people!!! They were also selling Japanese street food but we weren't able to buy anymore :(
-Pearl Gallery: They showed us how they make the cultured pearls. And I won one! XDDD wheee!
-after the tour we went to mass at the st. Ignatius church. It was near the Sofia University (I think it's the Japanese counterpart of AdMU?) We weren't able to make it to the English mass though, but we heard it in spanish! XD (haha, 4 languages in 1 day!) Had a hard time keeping awake since the voice of the priest was so... >_>
-Went around Ginza after, and my brother enjoyed it the most since it was the fashion district of Japan XD They were pricey, but they were worth it (i guess ^^;) Wasn't able to go to harajuku anymore, :( but I did see a lolita girl looking lost around ginza ^^;
*I think this was the day my mom said "ang daming guapo dito!" XDD hindi na ako nauna magsabi! 
*Though ginza was packed, I think we were still fortunate that we weren't as cramped up as I thought it would be. Yung Golden week kasi parang Holy Week. Walang tao sa siyudad :D

DAY 3:
-Mt Fuji: we were really lucky to see mt. fuji from afar the tour guide said, since we went there on a sunny day!. Mt. Fuji was beautiful!  Though we were only allowed to stay around 15 minutes, and the time going up and down would be around 3-4 hours >_>
-Hakone: we went to Lake Ashi for a 15 minute boat ride (which my mom complained na bitin! ^^;) and a cable car going to another moutain to get a nice view of the lake and Mt. Fuji :D
-wasn't able to buy souvenirs though >_> Rushrushrush!
*after 3 days in tokyo, we got lost going to our hotel! XDD It was wierd since we were getting along fine with thesubways and trains.
*finally saw lolita magazines!! <3

DAY 4:
-bullet train to Osaka. there was an adorable kid diagonal to my seat, and he was driving his car around the window. hee. His parents were also nice too. Too bad I wasn't able to stalk pictures of him. 
*I just noticed that kids and babies in japan have rosy cheeks!!! It's sooo adorable! And they're so chubby (especially the cheek area) I just wanted to glomp them TT^TT Must restrain!!! 
-Got to our hotel, which pales in comparison to Keio. And the staff wasn't as friendly. Maybe they're not used to foreigners? 
-went to an underground shopping plaza. kala namin underground yung goods, yun pala literal na underground lang. Ang mahal pa rin eh!
*someone complimented me for my hair. It was funny, a salesgirl came up and said "kakoi!.. *somethingsomething*...ah! murasaki to?" I just looked at her and said I didn't understand much, and she couldn't speak much english either. After that we just stared at each other and I just kept on saying "sumimasen!" But i think from the little conversation we had, she also has friends from the Philippines. hee XD

DAY 5:
-went to kyoto via train. My mom was really dissapointed cause we were supposed to go there by bus, but they said that it was traffic. Also since the meeting place was another hotel, we had to wake up early to get there to realize that we had to go to ANOTHER hotel to meet up with the other tourists. Most of them were white at the last meeting place... and no, I'm not implying anything.
-kyoto imperial palace: security was cool at the palace. The floor squeaks like a nightingale to warn the residents. Also, the top concubine of the shogun was odd. She had to have no eyebrows and had black teeth. As our tour guide said (who is a guy) "Personally, I prefer other women" XD. The palace was huge!
*lotsa school kids on a field trip today. Hee... got to stalk pictures!
-Golden Pavillion: It was gleaming! And we were able to buy mochi! Yaaaay! 
-Ate lunch at a kyoto handicrafts store. Too bad they kept on rushing us we weren't able to buy a lot of souvenirs pa rin >_>
-went to the biggest wooden building ever built, and it was a buddhist temple. the statues were HUUUUGE! And, it was also a deer park so lotsa deers greeted us going to the temple
*A deer ate my dad's brochure from his pocket. I'm guessing no one was feeding the poor fellow ^^;
-went to a shinto shrine after. Was able to see the priestess wearing the red pants thing ^^ and some wisteria flowers :)
-got home by train, and went for a last minute shopping at a huge department store. Got to go to a Jump store and saw lotsa tenipuri, naruto, death note, rk and other anime merchandises :D Parang comic alley.
*this was the last day :(

sorry for the boring documentation. I'll put pictures at my multiply as soon as I can.

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...I found Dianne's letters to me when she was already in the US. It was an odd feeling, since another close friend of mine had also gone. And oddly enough, while I was reading her letters again, Spongecola's "don't leave this place" was playing on my cd player. I cried. 

It was the same wave of salt and water that washes me away again.