Gary works in the Mori Tower which is a landmark in Tokyo and within an area of the city called Roppongi Hills which happens to be another big shopping complex and is also where our hotel is based so Gary can literally fall out of bed into work which is very handy.
On the bottom level of the shopping complex they have this great little children's area (i.e. rest area for parents) which is open to anyone to come and use and they have facilities for feeding, changing and playing. This is where I took this photo of Aoife very happily driving the little red car.
Being in the hotel is pretty challenging as space is really limited especially as we have nine suitcases of stuff (at Heathrow they were going to charge us £1500 in excess luggage but we managed to negotiate and re-jig a few things around so it came down to £500).
Anyway we are feeling pretty cramped in the hotel room although admittedly buying Aoife a huge inflatable football at the airport which I inflated yesterday and the pop-up tent we got in Ginza both haven't helped the space situation!
The other thing with the hotel is that I can't really make any food for Aoife so finding things for her to eat is tough especially as very few of the restaurants around here are baby friendly (despite the fact that the Japanese absolutely love children). I finally had success today with a meal when I went out and bought a packet of weetabix and a pint of milk but other than that she's been eating whatever random stuff I can get my hands on (mostly Organix cheese and herb puffs from the UK).
The jet lag is still awful but hopefully we'll be over the worst of it soon and cross fingers by the end of the week we'll almost have adjusted to the new time zone and be feeling less zombie-ish.
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