Kaoru~

Day 1 ~ Universal Studio Japan

After touch down, as i mentioned way earlier, we headed into the bus and proceeded to Universal Studios~! Leaving the Kansai Airport we only stared out of the windows, with mouths gaping open and the occasional "OMG!! Look at the driver! So smart!" Yeah, clean and smartly dressed people are a rare species here where we stay. Hehehe..

Moments later, we reached... Universal Studios~!!! We pranced down the bus, making a commotion among ourselves, ('ourselves' here meant me and Hika pyon, because we hadn't got the time to interact with everyone..YET). I mean, Gawwdd... we're in Universal Studios~! the sight of the gigantic Elmo by the gates was enough to make me squeal in delight~

We sauntered in was.. er.. overwhelmed by the amount of people we saw lining up. I mean, its the school holidays and we're in Universal Studios. It's like a public holiday in MidValley (-.-")
So our beloved tour guide Elina and Ernest-san gave us options to either walk on our own, or we should follow them. Flustered with excitement that we just saw a Kaneshiro Takeshi look-alike amongst the middle school boys, we decided to float along with them. What's the hurry? We have five days to walk on our own anyway~
First stop, The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman-The Ride. Well, we were enthusiastic about it, we're told by Ernest-san that its a 4D ride~ By the way, anyone, someone please explain to me what's the difference with a 3D? Anyway, we bounced into the theater, went on into the foyer, into the numerous lanes segregrated by railings and queued up. And we waited, and scooted along.. 10 mins, 20 mins, 30 mins, legs twitchy, 40 mins, 50 mins, started to curse why did we changed our currency into notes intead of changing some coins so we'll be able to use the vending machine because we finished our bottles of water, 70 mins, and so on. We queued for 2 hrs. I was dehydrated and cold and tired. Again, i had low blood pressure and Hika-pyon had a minor headache. But anyway, along the queue, we were shown 'artifacts' or rather props from the comic and given 3D shades~ Very lifelike, having a glimpse of the props gave me a feeling of what was to come. We got onto a tram/train/ ride and we held our breaths as we started rolling onto the railings. In a sudden, all of Spiderman's nemesis', enemies, girlfriend, babysitter, uncle, whoever associated with him appeared and using my own cluttered understanding of Japanese, ol' Peter will save our asses as helpless citizens caught in a fray. (Ha ha ha) But, believe me, the 2 hour wait was ultimately worth while~ We screamed, laughed, gripped onto railings, flung arnd by those bad asses, got shaken around by Spidey, sprinkled with water and blew with hot air when Dr octopus got into a bad mood swing. We got in grumbling and got out beaming.


After the ride, obviously pleased, we sauntered around, fooled around and went into Backdraft, where they showed us how firefighters fought against the fires in the movie. i didn't watch it, and wasnt exactly thrilled about it, but it was cool, how they repeated a scene from the movie.

That was all for theme parks and rides in our Universal Studios tanken, becaue we had enough of lining up and we're not ready to sacrifice our precious time lining up~ So, we told Elina we're splitting up and she told us at the very least, follow them to the place where you can eat those yummy turket legs~! We again, lined up like good little kids and bought one for each of us the roasted turkey leg~ Oh man, one is really enough to fill you up silly~! it is the same place where we got our throphy wtaer bottle~! Hahahahaa~ We just barged ourway through while ordering drinks, we'd figure we'd share our drink so we ordered the Oolong Tea. There's no regular or large. There's half yard and footlong. Again, someone please explain. We ordered foot long and a trophy-like plastic bottle filled with oolong tea was presented to us and it's really a foot long. (-.-")

So there we were, like how the tour group described us as, two 9 year olds walking on our own, gleefully smiling to ourselves. We shopped around, chased after Hello Kitty, met Matsumoto tenchou (huhuhu...), took photos with Woody Woodpecker and gf, and gave major hugs to Elmo, the softie. All in a day's play, we had to leave at 5pm and crash into Cross Hotel~

We were told by Elina it is a 5star hotel, so we behaved and got into our room full of wide eyes expectation. i loved the toilet. The first thing i did was to study how to use the toilet properly~! hehehehe.. we didn't linger too long in the hotel, basically we're told to leave our bags and meet up in the lobby for dinner. So, being the very good and PUNCTUAl little kids that we are, we did and off we trotted to.. Shin.zai.ba.shi!!!!!!!!!!! p(#>,<#)q