The funny thing..

The thing about the Japanese culture is it is extremely rule oriented. There's rules for everything and everything is expected to run according to plan. In the US we're cowboys. Rules are made to be broken, bent, ignored or just side-stepped.

So here we are in Yokota waiting to check into our Japanese hotel room. Check in is at 4pm. It's 3:30 and we were told to sit down and wait until four. Let me stress that the cleaning crew just walked across the street to McDonalds...so they're done for the day. No more rooms will be cleaned....and here we sit to wait the 30 minutes until official check in time.

Sigh. There's just somethings I can never wrap my American brain around.

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