three quick notes

leff has started posting about the tokyo trip on his blog!  you will want to go read that as he takes MUCH better pictures than i do!

JENS SENT ME A BDAY CARD IN JAPAN!!! LOL JENS YOU ARE THE BEST THANK YOU!!!!

the card arrived after we had left tokyo BUT THE HOTEL SCANNED IN THE CARD AND SENT IT TO US IN EMAIL!!! OMG HOW INCREDIBLE!!!  i was going to write about how great of a place it was in a later post but, hey, i'll tell you NOW! if you are looking for a place to stay in tokyo, you CANNOT go wrong with art hotels hamamatsucho! great location, AMAZING STAFF, fantastic breakfast, super clean, very comfortable! i cannot recommend them enough!!