Today is/was a day spent travelling, by which I mean just gettting to somewhere else. Somehow I had managed to convince myself that we were arriving in Osaka on Saturday morning, dispite knowing that we were only leaving Christchurch at lunchtime on Saturday!
So as it is Saturday morning we checked out of our last resting place in New Zealand (a slightly cold but very central hostel) and headed to Christchurch airport. The flight was slightly delayed, not that it matters with our stop-over time, but very good. Gem loved it 'cos they served Singapore Slings!
We're now in Singapore airport waiting for the next flight to get us to Japan. That wait is a pretty long one, about 6 hours or so. Gem wanted to go into town for a couple of hours but I wasn't that up for it, prefering to just find somewhere to eat in the airport and save the effort of going in and out, and through customs again.... though it would have been another stamp.

So yeah, we will arrive in Japan on SUNDAY morning!! About half past eight. I was even so sure, or at least too sure to check that we booked a night in a hostel for Saturday so earlier this week I emailed them to get that day cancelled!
Going to spend the day hanging out with Ian, hopefully he'll show us around a bit, and we'll be awake enought to appreciate it all. I'm really excited about this leg of the trip, it is promising to be amazing!