Returning to beautiful Disney Sea...

Feeling a bit tired on our last day, TamDrew and I decided to take the scenic boat-ride around the park. It offered better photo-ops for several of the areas.


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Have you ever had a day when you couldn't anything right do?

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Ug. Today has been one out of control spiral of complete and utter fail. I doubt you all like hearing about my crap days, but this is my blog, and I use it for venting too.

So first, I got up and set out for my weekly dance aerobics class. Once I take the train and then walk there (a ( Read more... )

Here's the first part of the best of my pictures from Disney Sea. Last time I went there, my camera ran out of batteries, so took a lot of pictures this time. It's a truly beautiful park, and the sheer amount of detail and themeing is amazing. We spent a bunch of our time in line just "ooh and aah"ing over all the little details we could see.


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So you know the so called "mosquito tone". It's an extremely high tone, somewhere between 17 and 18 KHz that you're not supposed to be able to hear if you're over 20 or so. Teenagers use it to secretly alert them to text messages in class (without their teachers noticing), and it's also used to repel stray dogs and cats.

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WARNING: Some might find this entry kind of disturbing. I know I do.

Disney pictures can wait.  Today I have come face to face with the most horrifying insect I have ever had the displeasure of seeing up close. Those spiders from before? Yeah, they're back again, but that's old news compared to this. At least those things can't fly... or kill you.

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I have lots of photos of Disney to show you, but first I want to devote a full entry to the most wonderful and magical secretest secret in all of Disney Sea.

The Single Rider Line!!!!!!!!!

It was crowded in Tokyo Disney while we were there. Obon was over, but not over enough I guess, because the parks were still swarming. Fastpasses were running out ( Read more... )

Almost the end of August, and there hasn't been a song of the month yet! Oh no!

While it's still Summer, I present THE song of the summer last year in Japan, Kiseki by GReeeeN. Yes, that's the right number of 'e's.

So, the actual music video for this has a little mini drama, which means that the song is inserted after over a minute of storyline ( Read more... )

The Hello Kitty bus is coming.
And everybody's jumping.
From Kanto to Kansai
Teenage girls are squealing, "Kawaii!"


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Isn't there a Dr. Seuss book like this title?

Anyway, continuing our day in Tokyo, we were passing through the Ueno station, and I wanted to check out the very large park that I had noticed nearby. Turns out that it was much larger than I thought, with a bunch of museums, a zoo, walking trails, and other stuff. Kind of the Central Park of Tokyo I ( Read more... )