Entries this day: Dream Tokyo_Disneyland

Dream

7:20am JST Tuesday 16 December 2003

I was talking to a guy and we had to use two words that had the same hiragana and make like a crossword puzzle with them.

There was more, but I read janette's ultra-super-emails before writing. I don't remember.

Wow. C-c C-v works on emacs now!

7:58am

I remember more of my dream

I was living with some women roommates, including a Morag-energy and her roommate Lisa-energy woman. Morag and I were past the sexual tension and were chilling (in the bathtub) together (with clothes on, in the water, but not soaked) and Lisa came in and offered to have sex with us and I was like "yeah" partially, but I knew it would be inappropriate so I was like, "naw," and then I realized it was a dream, so I was like, "yeah," but then it was too late.

My roommate left a mess in the restroom.

Tokyo Disneyland

7:25am JST Tuesday 16 December 2003

Yay no rain is scheduled for today!

11:53pm

Whoo.

Tired. tired. My new roommate is so weird.

ともこ, ゆうこ and I had big fun at Tokyo Disneyland today. I won't give a play by play; I'm too fucking tired for that.

My goldfinger got us permission to see the super show at the end of the day, but it was subsequently cancelled due to high winds. Silverfinger.

Space Mountain is closed due to some injury I guess.

Got a fastpass to ride Splash Mountain and then waited forty minutes for the Big Thunder Mountain minetrain. That ride is well themed, has three lifts and lasts probably four minutes I'm guessing (including lifts). The ride has little to no airtime, but the seats are quite loose with only one lapbar across two people at a time, giving plenty of wiggle room. I could have stood up when I rode alone (but chose not to cause it was quite dark and I didn't want to risk a night in the hospital to prove I could do something I knew I could do) in the car, but instead just braced myself about 8 inches off the seat for most of the ride.

We rode it twice.

Rode Splash Mountain twice as well. It's half water half minetrain ride. Actually 3/4 water. I bought the picture the first time we rode. That ride is (currently) themed with Brer Rabbit and friends Zip A Dee Doo Dah style with swampy critters playing banjos and singing and fishing.

We rode It's a Small World After All, a flat water ride going through different rooms with Disney's versions of different cultures' versions of Christmas.

Um, rode Star Tours, which was pretty good, but pretty short. I was impressed with the themeing of that ride as well. (original Star Wars trilogy theme) I couldn't tell how they made the ride move; we were basically in a moving box (I think!) but when we got out, it seemed pretty substantially connected to everything nearby. Interesting.

Oh, we went through a haunted house ride, and I was impressed with its ability to give large groups of people a show at a time. 3 people per individually swiveling car, and we got on the cars while the train of cars was moving along the boarding area. Efficient and basically as safe as a moving sidewalk. In the first elevator room, the pictures on the wall suddenly started stretching and it took me almost half a minute to see how that trick was done. It looked really good.

We watched "Honey I Shrunk The Audience," which was pretty cute with quite realistic animation and included a huge dog sneezing on the entire audience. (Sorry to give it away.)

Ate pizza at on a windy balcony area. Yummy.

Ate 1700 yen dinner in a relatively nice restaurant. After dinner we watched through the windows the Parade of Lights, featuring about 15 Disney-themed floats, each coated in lights and starring animatronics, or (more often) people dressed as the characters from the various movies. ともちゃん was able to more quickly and accurately identify the various stories/movies represented by the floats.

During dinner they gave me some Japanese to study and I gave some English to ゆうこね。

Oh, we rode the spinning tea cups only because I told them I would *not* spin it as fast as I could, but would in fact anti-rotate the cup so that we stayed oriented in the same direction through the entire ride. That was nearly as fun and certainly required finer skills than spinning like Fred and I would have done. Plus no one was sick afterward.

Took pictures in the Mad Hatter store (スーリやプオのきもの) and then bought some postcards in the overpriced gift shop. I saw some slippers that I wanted to get for Wende. I saw a plastic cookie tin that I wanted to get for janette.

I wondered a lot about what it would be like to work at TDL. As a grounds sweeper (the place was really really clean (and, thank god, had very few smokers!)) or as an actor. Could be fun. Could be the start of my acting career. (my what?)

Oh, we rode the Pirates of the Carribean ride, which ともこ said her uncle designed 20 years ago !!!!! The ride has been here all this time and just recently re-themed in Pirates gear. She said it was darker than before. A baby cried while we were on the ride.

Overall, super fun time; I had great fun in the full attention of two women (as unavailable as we may all be) and learned a lot of Japanese and got to see TDL and laughed a ton; it was premium.