if ($credit > $cost) { buyTicket(); }

I got the limit on my credit card upped a bit. Before it was set to just a little bit below the cost of the plane ticket. I can now afford to buy the ticket on my own card. If I couldn't have gotten the limit bumped up then I would have had to get either Bernard or Charles to buy the ticket and paythem back in cash. I wasn't relishing that thought.

Charles also emailed earlier today saying that he has booked the Tokyo hotel. That leaves us with booking the hotels for the second week. We have selected the ones we are planning on staying at, we just have to make reservations.

Many hotels in Japan still accept only cash and require payment up front. When we check into the hotel on the first night we will need 19,800 yen each in out pockets. That seems like a lot but it is for nearly a whole week. At the moment the conversion rate is close to 100JPY = $1CDN. That equates to having nearly $200 in cash at touchdown in Japan. I will talk to Charles to see if he thinks it best to get that money here in Canada or to get it at a bank machine in Japan.

I am getting more and more excited and nervous about this trip. There is still so much up in the air.

I was looking for Japanese goth bars, but most of them are not going to be operating at times that are good for this trip. Maybe the one in Osaka will be do-able. I will examine further.