TOKYO, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, 4:36 a.m. — Hello everybody, it’s Will here and I am supposed to tell you about my day. We woke up REALLY early and my brother drove us to the airport. When we got there and navigated our way through security,customs and whatever you call it. We checked our baggage and mom got all darn WORRIED that her BAG did not go through. She thought the people there would be all like: “Oh there is a bag sitting on the ramp that was checked”. “Great John, let’s just leave it there cause we’re idiots.”Ha ha. We were sitting in our gate for like FOUR HOURS. Cause we had to come so EARLY!!! I read the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. It’s good. We got on our plane and they did not have those movie screens in the back of your seat thing and so I played video games for a LONGGGGGGGGGGG time.

When we got there dad looked up who won in the Ducks game and… NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! QUINCY, YOU DID NOT CHEER LOUD ENOUGH! The Ducks lost and so my mom was all smirky. So then I felt weird and started babbling. I said: “when I am in Africa I want to see Earl the talking elevator.” I felt SO weird and tired. When we got our bags we went to see if we could find our friends Mike and Helen. I was still babbling so I said, “Lets go find Michael Jackson and Helen of the Bob Dynasty We were waiting in this VERY long line and I found these two random people and thought it was Helen and Mike. Then they snuck up behind us.

We were in this very busy under ground train station and waiting in this long line. I was feeling awful. Mike turned my hat inside out and said it was my rally cap. Two hours later we were rushing to the train–we missed the first one because of this stupid security officer. I named him Vaz the Spaz. 45 minutes later we were on the train. I played video games for the whole hour long ride. When we got out we rushed out of this train station and into this department store. It was crazy. I got dumplings and a moon cake. It took a long time for everyone else to find their food. They found these snack boxes of WHAT? We never knew. Then dad randomly bought these fried things. I was just happy I had my dumplings. We stopped at this gum shop and watched them make hard candy and gum. They had samples. It was so good. It was still warm and fruit flavored.

We raced back to the hotel. and checked in. Some Japanese guy was in the elevator we waited for him to go and we pressed the button agian. AAAAAHHHH! THAT JAPANESE GUY WAS STILL IN THERE! We waited again and this time it came up empty. We went to our room and Helen and Mike went into the wrong room with some guy in it. We got in our room and the toilet open the seat when you opened the door. “AAAAHHHHH”!!! I screamed. I named it Tommy the Talking Toilet. We were going too have dinner. MY DUMPLINGS TURNED OUT TO BE FROZEN! So I had a moon cake for dinner because I did not want too touchthe purple rice and the fried whatever. Then I fell asleep. GOODBYE.

Editor’s note: As the grownups were finishing dinner and their beers in the hotel, Will reclined onto one of the beds and announced, “OK, that about wraps it up, folks,” rudely urging Mike and Helen to return to their own room, calling an end to our first hours in Japan ….