My Miracle Trip To Japan

I went on a magical trip that changed my life forever and this is that story so it's Labor Day weekend 2016 and my friend tells me she has an update on my ex so I'm just like oh my god what's going on does he have a girlfriend already she tells me no no girlfriend so I am relieved but then she tells me that he recently went to Japan that pissed me off so much because my ex does not like to travel I had to book all of our trips together he went to Puerto Rico we went to Mexico City it was all because of the work that I did to plan these trips and one of the big trips I wanted to do for us was to go to Tokyo it's been my dream trip since I was a kid so fueled my Instagram jealousy I ran back to my apartment and immediately began googling trips to Japan I found round-trip tickets for $750 whoo then I texted my childhood friend Pat and I told about this crazy cheap deal that I found he was down I was down we decided to spend two weeks in Japan a month after we booked our flights my father was hospitalized due to complications with diabetes I was with my dad at the hospital for most of the time and I assumed the role of the caregiver because my mother is a nanny and she does not have the same flexibility as I do work in here buzzfeed we received the heavy news that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer I never thought that I'd be in a situation where either my parents would have cancer I took my dad to two different oncologists they both agreed he needed a tumor removed from his left kidney I somehow miraculously got him into one of the best hospitals in the country but I was getting nervous the trip to Japan was getting closer and closer and I wasn't at work a lot and I asked my boss at one point should I still go to Japan is that okay she said please go you need to travel and get your mind off things and with my family and boss's blessing I hopped on a plane with my friend Pat and we embarked to the Land of the Rising Sun we started our trip in Kyoto which is Japan's aging capital it has thousands of temples and shrines so we decided to book an all-day tour so we can hit up all the important spots obviously at the time I had a lot going on my life and also a very spiritual person so it's important to me when I was in Kyoto to pray in these temples and shrines and doing a very respectful manner at the end of this tour I'm totally nerding out I'm in the front of the group asking all the annoying questions raising my hand it got to a point where I was that person holding the tour guide pole I was that tourist and all of a sudden I noticed this cute guy and I think he's looking at me at one point we locked eyes and then I looked away because I just thought he was staring at me because I looked crazy with that tour Pole thing so we're at the last stop of the tour and it's this magical temple called Q Mizzou Dera it's absolutely stunning there are these two stones and they're actually called the love stones and legend goes that you must close your eyes and walk from one stone to another stone and if you're able to walk from one stone to another stone with your eyes closed without any help that means you won't need help finding love however if you off from one stone to the other stone and you need help you will need help finding love whether it's a matchmaker your mom tinder you're gonna need help so my friend Pat walks from one stone to the other they're about 60 feet apart and he is flawless I do it and I'm a hot mess I trip I stumble yeah in other words I desperately need help finding love before we knew it it was time to head back to the tour bus and go back to our hotels so as I get back in the bus I noticed that that really cute guy who I thought was checking me out he was sitting the back of the bus - it was weird because he definitely wasn't sitting the back of the bus throughout the whole day of this tour so here I'm talking about traveling and where he's been in Japan so I turn around and start talking to him we're hitting it off he introduced himself as Josh I told him I was Alexis and then I quickly introduced them to Pat but I made sure to say this is my friend Pat so he knew I was traveling with a homie and not a boyfriend so then I gave my Instagram handle and I told him to follow me which he did I became friends with this girl named Molly from Australia and we made plans to hang out that night so I figured I'd asked Josh to join us cuz he's also an Aussie why not Molly Josh and I mean the hotel lobby that evening and I lead them to this really cool ramen place that I found on Yelp we had a great meal inside to get drinks afterwards which is where things took a turn after a few hours in a bar I propose that we do karaoke because Japan is the birthplace of karaoke you know that chemistry you have when you go out with a crush your arms are brushing each other your legs are rubbing next to each other and you feel that spark in the air that's how it felt singing with Josh Molly finally leaves to go to the bathroom the second Molly leaves a room Josh and I begin looking each other and we just start immediately kissing 4:00 a.m. rolls around and we leave the karaoke bar after we dropped off Molly Josh and I headed straight to his hotel the next morning we woke up together and ate a hungover lunch at McDonald's we ended up spending the whole day together and we've really opened up about our lives he tells me that his parents are both cancer survivors so I told about my dad's recent cancer diagnosis and we really really really bonded over that Josh and I spent 36 hours together and the only reason we stopped hanging out was because he had to go back home to Australia I still had a week left in Japan so I finally met up with tad again for him all the while Josh and I kept talking on whatsapp it felt like he was my boyfriend even though he wasn't eventually my trip to Japan ends I'm back in New York City a few random guys my past asked me to hang out and it frustrated me these boys were playing themselves I hadn't heard from them in months and they just started popping up on my trip after Japan and it just gave me clarity that really the only person he wants to be with was Josh a few days later I was on the phone with Josh and I just told him the truth I was like look I only want to be with you and no one else oh my god I was feeling the same way if I was in a wait until Christmas to tell you that he said it felt really nice that we were both in the same page so we both laughed and like decided then and there that after 36 hours of hanging out he was my boyfriend and I was his girlfriend fast forward to a month later my father was about to get surgery to have his tumor removed my father is a man of God and I grew up in a Baptist Church and I really respect and love the power of prayer but nothing had prepared me for my father's surgery update a few days after surgery my father's doctor called and he said that my dad's tumor was benign I thought back to two things I distinctly prayed for in Kyoto first was my father's health I I prayed for a speedy recovery like I wouldn't be the optimistic woman that I am today if it wasn't for him so that was a really it was a really important prayer in Kyoto the second thing I prayed for in Kyoto was true love so here I am my mid-30s and I prayed to find true love no matter my age I was like if I find true love my 40s or 50s or 60s I'd be okay with it I just want to find the right person I'm sure you're wondering what's going on with Josh and I now well I end up going to Australia to meet his friends and family and he came to New York City to meet mine less than a year after we met he moved to LA we got engaged exactly a year after we met we went to the Beverly Hills courthouse and got married and it only cost us $90 to get married what a steal I never gave up on love and it led me to where I am now I hope the one thing you can take away from this video is to do the same don't give up on love [Music]

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Views: 1,090,760

Keywords: Japan, Kyoto, Tokyo, Zuh7, aWwa, buzzfeed, buzzfeed story times, buzzfeed storytime, buzzfeedvideo, japan travel, love, miracle, miracles, story time, storytime, this is that story, this is that story buzzfeed, tokyo japan, vacation, vacation to japan

Id: f2jeyaSo084

Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018