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AM Hitmoi

9:04am JST Wednesday 3 November 2004

This morning Hitomi is in a bad mood, but I don't know why. She and I are s'posed to go to Yumiuriland today, and when I woke up at 8 and was like, "cool let's go," she seemed angry, because last night we went to bed late and I had said let's get up at 10, she's not saying anything this morning. This is not a game I want to play, "what did I do wrong?" or "wtf is wrong with you?" I need communication. This is a Last Straw.

(he says, but they're still planning to go to YUL by bicycle.) If she doesn't fuckin' genki-up, there will be problems today. I need to watch myself; we're just doing this thing called go to YUL, and I can go again alone or with someone else.. (one more thought was in there).. Oh, it's like we're acting like everything is cool, but everything is not cool. That seems to be the way to do it in this culture. That sucks butt.

Yomiuriland

11:47am JST Wednesday 3 November 2004

Hitomi and I talked through the situation; she wanted to talk as soon as she got back from when I wrote the previous entry.

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We rode TJ Bike and Mimi Bike to Yomiuriland!! It took probably 45 minutes, which is not as long as I expected. The trip included stopping for drinks and the guy saying, "oh this next bridge is for cars only you'll have to go waayyyy around..." and showed her a map and all that. So we turned and got a bit lost, but before getting too lost, a taxi guy was like, "go right next to the bridge no prob" which we did, and included me porting both bikes up and down some stairs, much to the amazement of an old woman who was at the top of those stairs at the time.

The last hill to get to Yomiuriland is a hefty one, but we made it.

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So we're here at YUL and it's way more crowded than it was when I was here last time,but it's not as crowded as it could be. It looks like we'll have to wait for about six Bandit cycles, instead of 1 last time.

ps: Hitomi hands make a good table, a la Bryn at Luna Park in Melbourne, OZ.

12:59pm

Fun so far. Video on Bandit got cut off halfway through, though I haven't seen where; my batteries are low (stupid me) so I am conserving power. Then we both did the bunjee jump and were like whoooo like all kinds of fun and got those videos and then a bunch of other cats wanted to bunjee. I was like, "we should get free tickets!"

Then we sat in the last seat of White Canyon and I got a video, but from last seat. NOW we are in the front seat of white Canyon,or we are in line for first seat. I hope my batteries last.

1:16pm

Kickass. My batteries made it. On the way up the chain incline thing, I noticed first that I was on picture mode, not video mode. Then when I switched to video mode, I saw I had enough memory to record 33 seconds worth of video. The previous video was 90 seconds, so I switched to Play mode so I could delete it, but was was running out of time up the incline and beginning to panic and pressed play instead of delete cause usually that's what I want to do. So the video was playing, and I was like, no no no and had to relax, think, then deleted the video, and then switched back to video mode, just in time to record the ride. Nice.

I'm gonna call this a successful trip to YUL; I have a video from the front seat of White Canyon.

Here is the video of White Canyon that I took from the front seat. It's 22.5 megs.

3:17pm

We rode a few wussy rides, oh, and we met this 14 or so year old girl who reminded me of Joana Olson (whose name I just now remembered quite quickly)... She was riding the Craaazzeee Houuuuusstoooonn ride. She zoomed back into line to ride it again, and again, and again. (The ride is two towers; a launch tower and a drop tower. She preferred the drop tower.) It was funny to see her scamper out of the ride back into line. While she rode that, we rode next to her once (to get aerial pics of White Canyon) and then we rode the big innertube down a bigger waterslide ride and could still see her in line or on the ride over and over. I'm super glad she was having such fun.

We got ice cream, then rode the ferris wheel after trying to ride the suspended gondola, but turns out it's not actually part of the park.

Now we're going to ride a secret ride.

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Haha the secret ride was not a ride at all, but the "Sea Lion's Show" I had seen it before and knew Hitomi would like it so I told her to close her eyes, which she did well, but she opened them as the woman checked our hand stamp credentials, [welcome to our attraction!], which I can't really blame her, but I had hoped to be seated before she found out where we were.

We were both in tears of laughter for one part of the show; the sea lion barking into the microphone to the song sung by the lead show-girl. (and by show-girl I mean girl in the show, not strip-tease-dancer-girl.)

5:14pm

(the time above is a guess)

We explored the area I explored last time I came to Yomiuriland, but this time we couldn't get to the part I wanted to get to. It's some mysteriously unused part of the park, including an ampitheater, a very tall bridge only wide enough for a sidewalk, and a set of trails up a hill. We did, however, get to the White Canyon side of the bridge, and could see where it ended, which I didn't think I had seen before, but I'm having deja-vu now that I had seen it last time. Anyway, the bridge was still there, still old, still incomplete... a mysterious project that was never finished? Never fully taken down? There seemed to be evidence that it was currently under construction (the slowest construction project *ever*) as we found some asphalt poured in a couple of sections and a clipboard with a checklist, a pen, and a tape measure.

Aw man; I should have taken a picture (with Hitomi's phone camera) of me holding that stuff as if I were using it. I did joke that we should fill in as completed a lot of items on the checklist.

6:24pm

Tadaima.

Just got home. And one presidential candidate is the victor. I just don't know which one.

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Welp, no one knows which one yet.

7:36pm

Wow; I am falling asleep while trying to read about perl objects.

big nap

10:34pm JST Wednesday 3 November 2004

Crashed on my bed in like an upside down fetal position. My hips, back, neck, descendingly supported by the futon cover and janette's blanket and my legs folded up over me, kinda. I 100% zonked out that way, and then woke to rearrange myself under said blankets flat on my back with knees bent over a pillow. Slept for about 2 hours and woke up wondering if I had dreamt that Hitomi cooked.

dinner

10:39pm JST Wednesday 3 November 2004

I hadn't dreamt about dinner. Or if I did, my dream came true; Hitomi cooked chicken, spinach, and mushrooms for me. Soooo yummy. I told her they were the yummiest food I have ever had in Japan, being careful to specify the country. I could have said "outside Dallas," but she probably wouldn't have understood.