Royal Park Hotel Chuo

... plane, the 3 year old in front of me started screaming and the guy next to me obviously didn't use deodorant. Great way to start a flight. As for the flight itself, I did everything but sleep. I almost fell asleep once, but just as I was drifting off they put on the lights so they could serve breakfast. Yea, long story short, the whole thing sucked. I'll write from Hanam-si when I get there.<br>

... level before putting them away. Everyone dresses very suave. All the women dress their Sunday best and all the men over 25 seem to wear suits with not a single person letting their shirts hang out. Except for the young teeny boppers.... The Girls I thought about omitting this one. But, it is so crazy I had to talk about it. The girls in Japan dress better than anyone I have seen in my life. They all seem to have beautiful hair and wear really really ...

... for rock stars (she had a lot of pictures on the wall). She dressed Chris (almost literally), he looked great! He got a pair of pants, shirt and tie, fingerless gloves, and a belt. I got my picture taken by another tourist, I think she was French. People were dressed very cool there, lots of lolitas and punks and gothic-lolitas. We were really loaded with bags from the stores, so we headed back to the hotel to drop ...

... ready to leave we came across the afternoon parade, so we were obliged to stand and watch it. After that we were ready to leave. We gave some more money to the park for the customary Disney Mickey Mouse Ear souvenirs, had a quick ride on the carousel, the teacups, and watched a Mickey Mouse presentation/stageshow (which was Angela's favourite part of the day), after which we set off. Performed our train magic in reverse, and got back to ...

... us on our family and giving little gifts to the children - really friendly and lovely. Apparently the holiday is in celebration of Children, so maybe that is why, but we were quite overwhelmed to be offered biscuits and beautiful origami paper by one sweet elderly man, who told us what a lovely family we were. I suppose these two blonde haired, blue eyed kids do rather stand out in Japan! We ...

... the Febreeze to "get the corn smell out" of our wig and beard. It did little to help. They have these clothes racks that are covered with a blue "tent" that has Velcro to seal it up and there is a hot air blower inside. It dries the characters' costumes out. I put my costume in at lunch and it was still wet when I had to put it on. Do you remember, as a kid, you would go swimming and get out and take off your suit? Then ...

One clear-cut reminder that I was far, far away from where I had been in the previous decades was quite obvious on Mother's Day. I stopped off at the Shinagawa train station to have sushi for dinner. Took a small stroll around the station. Saw many beautiful flower arrangements. Thought -- and wanted -- to purchase some for my mother. Then it was confirmed that these flowers cannot be delivered to the United States -- or sent via a flower shop there, a similar arrangement ...

... to take care of with school and such, so its good fortune that taro planed to come up to Tokyo so i have someone to hang out with. Then Its one of tylers friends b-days so sounds like there should be a party, lasting till the early morning (don't worry mom Tokyo's bout the safest city on earth beside Singapore, And not as strict, I can chew gum! i gotta remember to get rid of my gum before i get to Singapore haha.) I'm looking forward to the next 2 ...

... price - man, a night here would have kept us for 14 in India! But then the room did have a window... Like HK, Tokyo we instantly liked but everything here was on a larger scale. The sense that you are arriving in a BIG city hits early as the train we were in rocketed through endless suburbs that could easily have passed for town centres in Europe. And the train rolled on, after maybe 1hour 15min of whizzing passed neon signs and high rises we eventually we arrived in ...

... we quickly had cold noodles covered in seaweed for lunch. Immediately after lunch we left (on bicycles) for the train station. There we met up with Risa's best friend Pimpim. We took the train to a shopping street downtown where they looked for costumes to wear for their dance concert. They looked for that for a while then we stopped at a jewelry store where all three of us bought matching earrings... for only $4.50 each! Risa soon insisted that I must be tired so we "took ...