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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.

Had my new Disney attractions book (written by Jason Surrell) waiting for me, when I returned home from the TPR Japan 2007 Tour.... Oooo goody goody!!! Covering all the Disney parks' mountains, from the Matterhorn to Expedition: Everest, and everything in between, including some not immediately thought of, like Blizzard Beach for example. Mmmmm. (p.s. The second line under the main title says "Imagineering at its Peak") Sweet, What a nice welcome home gift - even though I paid for it already, heh heh - from the TPR Japan tour.

BUMP with a BONUS PIC! I happen to LOVE Scary Teddy from NBC, right? Well, I just glanced over to the right of the desk here and there, leaning against one of my computer speakers was this one (of a collection of) pin I have, from an NBC/HM series, with Teddy playing the grand piano and Sally intently listening in... And suddenly YOIKS! There's the whole scene in my head at TDL, one of the first scenes we glided by in our Doom Buggies. Kool! And awesomely random to be reminded about, eh? Pic attached is a bit fuzzy but you can make them both out - and the piano, too. My little buddy on the left there, bashin' the ivories with Sally in rapt attendance? ..... Rapt? A bit of a clearer image of same pin.

Yeah, Peter with a shot gun. Peter in a Zorb. Even Peter with a cocktail....or three! What next for this adventurous, unabashedly bold .... uh..... Peter. ? Edit: YOU were Red Dawn Awesome to see on the trip, and spend some quality (hiccup) time with, Mr. puppet! Glad you were able to make this nutty journey with us. Hey - you going for Europe?

CONTEST CAPTION ENTRY: Lou: Damn, the Aussie A$$hole hauls..... A$$. Rich: Crikey, finally beating the Brit Porn Queen. Big boob-filled Destiny and a new Porno Kingdom awaits me - ye$$!

Actually there is quite a list of attractions and, uh.... things we found and dared to go on (see: Off-Pavement Gokarts here in previous RobbPost? ) and live to go on and on about it/them. But definitely agreed they were not possible for the USofA. Even the way we got belted with water on Splash Bandit could be cause of a possible lawsuit, depending on how wet, etc. blah blah. And Canada (where I live) wouldn't be much better on these things - following Big Bro etc. I keep hoping, though. But hey, we got over whatever happened, and wanted to ride more!

Listening to my CD of the original Tokyo Disney Sea daytime spectacle watershow... The Legend of Mythica A wonderful daytime surprrise, watched on Friday afternoon, Sept.14/07. And then there was BraviSEAmo! to come, later that evening.... Here's the case of the CD of that daytime TDS watershow, The Legend of Mythica. Incredible and spectacle --- and wet, too!

You went in groups of four, to an area, and when the bell/buzzer/whatever went off - you started shooting like crazy at whatever targets popped up - not the hostages though, har har - then you rushed into the next room/target area and repeated the same thing. Guns were electronic , killing hostages was seriously OMG crazy, and it was a good workout for most of us, lol. In fact, this was one of the very few shoot-up attractions that didn't move us around in a ride vehicle. Hence, a good workout, heh heh.

Near the end of the Japan Tour, I started to put a list together that said (to me), what was great or "the best" about doing all this insanity we did. Turned out there were tne pretty good things about it all, ot make note about it. With photos to show what I'm talking about. I shared The List with the group at our last din-din together, they enjoyed it, so I thought some more on it, added notes here and there... So here's the first three of my Top Ten, with some pix attached I hope you all enjoy looking thru. And three more will be posted in (what else?) three daysss.. #10 All The Parks on the TPR Japan Tour Whether it was that park that didn't give us any credits at all (better than Southport!), the park on the side of a mountain (location, location!) with the duck races and the icky animals zoo , or The Best Park Of Them All, every park in Japan had it's own uniqueness about it. #9 The Japan Yen = Cheaper Exchange For Us Shopaholics! I bought my first Huge Bunch of Stuff at Universal Osaka with a cc, then got a shock when several thousand Yen was not an On-Par equivalent on my cc update! Happy Dance for that! Even better with the US exchange, I betcha yes? #8 Japanese Transit and "That Little Rail Pass" Whether it was by trains, taxis or (bowing low to) The Bullet Train, Japanese getting-around was excellent, efficient and ONTIME for 99.99% of the time (Typhoon f-ups notwithstanding, eh?) And The Pass of the Tour Gods (that's us!) kept us on the move w/o too much worry and care about a lot of tickets to buy, etc. And Elissa & Robb would give us ca$h to cover other trains not covered by the pass, as well as the cabfare for between station and park(s). Awesome! Later, in three days with three more to post. Me and The Mouse. Got one of those silhouettes done on Main Street, in the morning at TDL. And the girl cutting it knew all about TPR! (shock) BTW, single view cutout (in main souvenirs shot) was a double 'bonus' I got in buying this thing. My First Japan Rail Pass. And still in pretty good shape too after all that touring around, lol. More of the same. Geez, I bought a lot of 'stuff' huh? Too many to comment on, but here's a look-see at (some of) what I ended up lugging back with me!