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Me posing with ALL of the luggage I used for the now-ended TPR Japan Tour 2007. This was taken Tuesday night (18th) after returing home. It can be done, even with bringing back souvenirs and "stuff" as can be seen in my Top Ten of Japan Tour List thread. Believe it! What can I say? I didn't think these bags would work - but they did!

I agree with Gus and I had an outside back-row seat, possibly/probably the exact same one Robb got for riding. And I liked the coaster! But again, waiting for so very long would NOT become a regular experience I would want to persue again and again. The park's Dipping Dots were good, though...

A few of us on the Japan Tour, thought it was Sept. 12, and since we were in Tokyo Disneyland - best we thought, to gets over to the Pirates of the Caribbean... Alas, we then found out from some other english-speaking peeps in the know - not to be sez they. Another week to go sez they... Arrrrr sez we, and we sighed a wheezy sigh. Eh - we had the best intentions, lol. Would have been especially fun in the park.

Holding a sickle onride, would have been a nice touch too, lol.

^ What --- again???

Random NHL-connection note: During the TPR Japan Tour (that just ended), I was at our final hotel's swimming pool having a really nice hour+ of swimming, sauna and jacuzzi... and this guy with his wife and two young daughters comes in to use the facilities. I heard them speak english, eventually started chatting with them - and found out they were originally from Toronto AND he used to play in the NHL??? With the Boston club? His name was JOEL PERPIC and he now has been playing hockey with the Japanese team who (gulp) OWNED the hotel we were staying at, AND also his team owned a baseball team in the Japanese League. The family lives 8 months in Japan, then back to Toronto for the four summer months. Talk about a random NHL connection, huh? And I don't even follow hockey that much, sorry. But I just had to put this little tour 'event' somewhere, hmm? And this immediately seemed like the perfect place, heh heh. (EDIT: They were also in AWE of this Japan tour we were finishing up. And they planned to "look TPR up" when they got the chance, lol.)

Great! Until our next Zorb together, lolol. (Edit: Two posts in a row. I am on a Roll! )

Have I got the Japanese Harem for you! Lololol. Our first day at Tokyo Disney Sea (on the TPR Japan Tour) and the three of us (Mike/miniviews, Peter/Loefet and queer old me!) end up with this actual beautifully dressed and made up...um....group after riding the Indy/Crystal Skull ride. We ran into them twice more at TDS, the last time being on the bridge between Mount Prometheus and the New York 'land' of the park. And then we never saw them again, sniff sniff. You would have loved them. I know I did, and they weren't even my... type.

He wasn't making it up. Being one of The Three with whom these six lovely young women... uh... made contact with.... um I have a photo, too. And I have the Indy Jones on-ride photo, with them sitting in front of us, as does Mike/miniviews. Eventually. Patience oh (probable) horny one.

Yeah. Uh huh. Right.

The entire CD recording of... Music from the IMAX motion picture of Cirque Du Soleil's Journey Of Man Oops = forgot the CD case shot here. Silly bear I is, heh heh.

^ Well hold on to that thought - and those five parks. You never know with TPR....

Second Post! My original intenet to say here, before being asked about the book (see above) was... I finally have my two fave parks in the world, for now. Disneyland Paris and of course, the recently visited Tokyo Disney Sea It cannot get any better than this. But y'know what? My life lately has worked in 3's and variations of... so maybe there's a third park "around the corner" (maybe Hong Kong later on, hmmm?). Ya never know. But, for the meantime...

^ Amazon.com Really good price on it too. Around $15 US I believe w/added shipping. It's listed under $20, but I know I paid less than that a Amazon. The Disney Mountains by Jason Surell ~ Imagineering at It's Peak ~ Publisher: Disney mainly, but you'll easily find it with the above information. Enjoy your copy! And they go into some stuff about the eventual aborted Western River Expedition, too!

Tivoli was a lovely little park that actually packed quite a few flats and themed attractions into it's smallish area, PROS were The Dessert Ride!; pretty landscaping and gardens everywhere; a not-too-bad flume with a blacker-than-black darkness inside (very freaky to NOT see your hand two inches in front of your face, lol); a ball-shooting bumber cars; a animatronic show w/moving audience I am PO-ed I missed out on seeing; and some great food there, but... the CON was we just didn't have enough time to enjoy all of it IMhO, and take our time, etc. I think an extra hour would have made a difference, but I think we were arriving near the end of it's opening hours. Timing. Ah well, a great little park for families with one cred and several cool rides and unique attractions to it. Hopefully you'll get to see more pix of it thru everybody's TRs too, including a couple I took there. With omg film-in-a-camera, my usual way to take trips, lol. In time, will post.

Listening (once again, can't get enough) to the complete CD recording of Tokyo Disney Sea's Nighttime Water Harbor Spectacular BraviSEAmo! The battle between water and fire rages on, with a volcano erupting during the performance! Awesome. Took it in the evening of Friday, Sept.14 in the TPR Japan Tour. And here's what the BraviSEAmo! cd case looks like. It's really an awesome show everybody should see and experience once in their life, if they can over to TDS.

Actually I used only two pairs. One was my trusty pair of Aussie Blundtstones - shout out Australia! - that have taken me thru several countries in Europe this and last year. And they are pull-ons w/o havign to deal with laces. So easy slip off (and slip back on, afterwards) during theme park shows, etc. The other was a pair of foam rubber clogs called (our Canadian version) Holey Soles, lol. I kid you not. I used them as mainly in-hotel footwear, although I did wear them when only going short distances, like to restaurants groups of us did a few evenings here and there. I made a mistake of wearing them out to the parks for a couple of days and suffered a blister (or three) that have finally calmed down, lol. But - one good pair of walking shoes (that will last you the trip/tour) is all you really need. And several pairs of socks, which will get wet, dye infused and just uuuuuugly to bring back home, lol. So you toss those. Hope that helps. (I also bought myself a pair of great looking sandals at Parc Espana, but that doesn't count, and I paid for it as it was heck to pack them to take home, lol.)

^ Just a slip of the tongue. It happens. On the tour, we were trying to get our Japanese words in order, heh heh. And our bows. And our 'garbage sensibilities'. And I think some of us accidently called her Kersten from time to time, depending on what we were saying, lol. I know I did, IMhO.

Positive from the Original Broadway cast CD of Legally Blonde: The Musical

Well, remember we were all dealing with humidity, no coach to continually take us places, and in and out of that stroller thru the train stations...? She did what I'd call Happy Screaming, which was almost as freaky as cry screaming, heh heh. So really loud stuff from her was really at a minimum, compared to all the time we spent with her and her folks. But when she let her lungs go....omg she could be an opera singer, LOL!

After now being at Tokyo Disney Sea last week on the TPR tour... This new part of IOA is definitely going to have to up the ante in themeing and general atmosphere of the place. It isn't just the attractions, yes? No? Thought I'd comment, IMhO.

Packing tip: I packed a box of my own preferred sneezing tissue, and a nice sized jar (plastic) of cashews (yum) for snacking on, besides all the wonderful goodies we got in our TPR bags. And when I finally got rid of the container and tissue box while on tour - Voila! Some more suitcase space available! Also losing the various worn pairs of socks and (um) 'other things' along the way helped give me gain some extra souvenir space here and there. Still - I was very amazed at how much my roomie, Shane, got and bought every bloody time we toured a park or parks. His kids have got to be The Most Spoiled (or will be) boys I know, currently. That said, it was still going to be extra fun to see how he would *^$@!) pack it all together. But alas, he stayed an extra night in Tokyo so I never found out. There was talk by various people of getting another suitcase, for their now massive collection of stuff, probably at the Disney Resort near the end of the tour! Hee hee. I did good.

^ We were all starting to figure out some kind of POLL for what her "first word(s)" would be.... Then several of us all thought at the same time.... "JOEY!" Or "VEKOMA". And she already showed signs of sitting up on her own, during the tour! Quite the fast learner, I'd say, lol.

Might as well admit it now. But when Elissa gave birth to Kristen, and kidtums was to become an immediate part of any and every current TPR tour... Well, I don't think I was alone in wondering how the baby would cope; how Elissa & Robb would cope...and more blantantly, how the f--- WE would cope on the tour, blah blah. Needless to say, she was (in any particular order) adorable, a perfect , a screaming banshee, and just the best traveller anybody could hope for. Kristen was an amazing Extra Bonus of the Japan tour, and I feel very lucky to have finally met the little charmer - and still see how the Alveys would cope, etc. hah hah! By the way, props to all you guys who helped keep kidtums happy, fed, occupied and generally at ease on this madhouse of a tour we did. You were all a great 'team' for Elissa & Robb, and it was wonderful seeing you all get so intimate and oogie-googie with the little sweetheart. So congrats on your first credit, kt! You earned it.

^ LOL. ^^ But wait for it - you need to see the actual suitcase (singular) I took with me and brought everything back with me, in it. Compared to most of everybody else's cases, I was truly... petite. And still, all this $tuff! Damn I was good! At packing, I mean. Hmmm. Even that sounds dirty. Oh well. Will reveal the entire crapload of stuff when I finish the Top Ten and then will show how OMG small my checked single piece luggage was, lol. And next year for the Europe trip, I do intend to "size up" to a bigger bag, heh heh.