So I’m here and I’m so excited that I can’t sleep past 5am local time… Well, maybe that has something to do with the fact that 5am local time is actually 1pm at home, but I digress. Colter’s ready to go, his first round is today at 11am. Practise session yesterday afternoon went really well, with very minimal breakage (one shot glass!) and no detectable effects to the beautiful 49th Parallel World Barista Championship Blend 2007. The shots were amazing yesterday, needless to say. I’ll try to have some kind of a daily update from here on in, but because my room doesn’t have internet (I have to come down to an adjacent hotel lobby to get wireless), I’ll probably point you over to DwellTime (link on the right) by Barrett. Go there for more up-to-date info I guess.
Yesterday afternoon, Barrett and I spent walking around Ginza. Went to Paul Bassett’s in Ginza and shopped around a bit (not buying anything yet, so can I call that shopping?) I like Bassett’s. I’m going back. 
Meals have been amazing, as expected. The flight was long and tiring, as expected as well, but was made better because we had the best coffee in the history of man at 38 000 feet. Yes, I’m sure. Why? Because it was 49th Parallel’s Wildforest Ethiopian! Go check my flickr if you don’t believe me… I brought a press on-board and the flight attendants were nice enough to accomodate our unique request.
More about all this later. I’m about to meet up with Team Canada (Colter, Barrett, myself, and Kanako) and head on over to Big Sight Tokyo for some final preparations!
GO COLTER GO!
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