Disneyland, Fire Parade, and Shopping

Hello again all! I have to constantly keep posting to keep up with that riff raff brother off mine....his blog is a delight. If you haven't been there yet, you should go. :) This Saturday, Roxy, Asuka, Su and I all made a trip to Disneyland! Roxy loves Disneyland, but it was not really that hard to get the rest of us to go as well. I got up super early and took the one hour journey to Maihama station, where Disneyland is located. Asuka lives only one station away, which is very convenient.
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The Gang at D-Land. If Disneyland had a Yakuza (mafia), Asuka would be the boss!
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As Asuka has been to Disneyland many a time, she knows exactly what rides to ride at what time in order to fight the crowds. We also had a divide and conquer strategy, so Asuka would run and get us all "fast passes" while we would wait and hold a place for her in line. Basically, Asuka is the Disneyland master!
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Roxy, in he cool new cowboy hat.
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This time I rode some of the more serious coasters (which Asuka understandably does not like to ride). The first new one for me was splash mountain, which I liked because it was a water ride....and those are my favorite. It has this one huge drop, and because I was in the very front of the raft, I got pretty drenched. But it was worth it, because I did the touristy thing and bought the photo of us going down the big drop, and it is pretty humorous.
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I am Tigger!
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I also rode space mountain, which really frazzled me. Basically, you are in a pitch black dark room (the only lights are the stars that are everywhere, so it is like you are flying through space) twirling and whirling in unknown directions. I got a little scared because I was afraid, with my height, I would hit my head on something, but I came out just fine. Maybe won't go on that one for awhile though.... We spent the entire day there, and I got home around 10:30. (which is late here). This was hard, because the next day I had to get up early and go to Odaiba, where my Host Dad was having a ceremony for Tokyo firefighters. The ceremony was held at the "Big Site" which is a huge convention center that is used for everything from comic-conventions to trade shows. I invited Asuka and Roxy along for the fun. Host Dad said the ceremony would be boring, but he was hinting I should bring friends, so I think he was pleased when I brought some.
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Inside the big site...cool, eh?
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Roxy and Asuka met us there, but it turned out we were too late to get to see the parade part, as it was all closed off. :( But we did play around in the big convention area, which had a wide array of fireman-related games. Tsuki-chan rode around in circles in mini fire trucks, he (tried) to put out a fake fire, and there was another one of those fake earthquake rooms. It was a good time, but I wish we could have seen the parade.
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Tsuki-chan and Mama putting out a fake fire.
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After the parade was over, we went to find Papa, who had been driving one of the fire trucks. He looked pretty spiffy in his fireman outfit, and was complimented by his fireman friends for having so many women greet him (my host mom brought a friend as well). We then said our goodbyes and headed out to do other things. Roxy, Tsuki-chan, Mama, and I went to Venus Fort (the Renaisannce themed mall I wrote about previously) and did a little shopping. There was a big bungee jump thing set up for kids in the center of the square, adn tsuki-chan gave it a go, which was pretty humorous. We then went to Toyota Mega Web (also written about previously) and Tsuki-chan forced Roxy and I to ride in this moving racer car thing. (He was too short for this one, I think he wanted to live vicariously through us). We then parted ways, and Roxy and I went some more around Odaiba. Again I got back home around 10:00 (getting a little worn out).
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Me and Roxy outside the Big Site
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The next day Asuka and I went with Roxy as she fiendishly shopped for a variety of anime goods. This of course, lasted quite a bit. After than, I then went home and did some homework....as I had class today and a test at that! I think it went ok....but I have really been putting a lot less emphasis on my studies lately, so I hope nothing bad happens..... Anyways, that's all! More to come this week....gotta keep up with that sneaky River. I am playing around with the format a bit, so hopefully it will look better.
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A movie of Tsuki-chan Bungee Jumping!
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