Day 1: sebun-irebun

it turns out that even in Tokyo, not much is open at 4am, which is unfortunate when your jetlagged baby becomes hungry from having already spent an hour playing with the phone in your tiny hotel room and needs to get out to stretch his legs and have a snack. So we headed to the 7-11 in the lobby of our hotel. While I believe this was toby’s first visit to a 7-11 period, I think it’s a whole different experience in japan. For example, instead of having a turntable of expired hot dogs or chemical flavored frozen drinks, they sell nigiri with the nori ingeniously separated from the rice by a piece of plastic that you remove just prior to eating. So far, toby has eaten two. If this keeps up, I’m not sure if my lap can handle him on the trip home. Especially since it’s now only 4:35am.