Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Double Decker Bus


idea stolen from NYC where it was stolen from London...

On a bright, sunny Saturday afternoon, I decided to do the touristy thing and take a double decker bus ride in the center of Tokyo.
It costs about $12 to take the tour and they gave out free mp3 players so you could hear the descriptions of the sights in English for free. Even though I had to give it back at the end of the trip, it seemed like a good deal. While waiting to board the bus, I scoped out the seat that I wanted and was second in line. Well, I was second in line, until one of the stewardesses told me I was standing in the wrong line. I was now pretty close to the back of the line. When I got on the bus, I noticed the bus driver was wearing penny loafers with parts of each shoe strategically cut out. The driver either had a combination of high arches, swollen toes and bunyons, or he wanted extra "air conditioning" for his feet. Luckily, he was wearing socks, so there wasn't any noticeable "air conditioning" coming from his shoes. Because I was one of the last ones on the bus, most of the pictures I took came out like this:However, I was able to take one nice picture that I thought I would share with you:
It is rather interesting because the woman's voice coming from the mp3 player said that the buildings in the background were rebuilt after they were destroyed by Godzilla when he was fighting Mothra. (Actually, I may have made that last part up; he might have been fighting Mecha-Godzilla.)

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