After a gruelling week that ended on Thursday - we took some time off and went to Tokyo! I finished my presentation, my reports blah blah on Thursday... which was fantastic because I didn't have to worry or feel guilty or anything about going to Tokyo on Friday!
We left on Thursday night with the night bus - Willer Express which was pretty comfortable. It was the first time I had to travel with someone in so long. Farah was pretty curious about a lot of stuff. We left from Sannomiya and arrived in Shinagawa, Tokyo the next morning.
It was 7am when we arrived and so we went to Marlyn's place near Sugamo (by the Yamanote line) to have breakfast and freshen up. We had pancakes too! It's been so long since I've had pancakes - and they had maple syrup too.... it was soooo tasty! We left Marlyn's place only around, close to 10 - which was 2 hours behind our schedule, but we made it around 11am anyway - at Disneyland!
At first, I have to admit that I wasn't too enthusiastic, but when I saw the gate... and then the unrealistically coloured hotels inside the area - I felt the child inside start skipping. =)
We went on Snow White's adventure, the teacups, Splash Mountain in Critterland and the train in Westernland. It was so weird at first because the Snow White ride was kinda creepy. Farah screamed at one point... which led me to scream as well. It was all dark and loud and eye-y and witch-y and branch-y and, well, creepy. It was the first ride we went on so all the screaming made us high... We started laughing our heads off after we got of the cart... which was where I actually allowed myself to go on the Alice in Wonderland teacups.
I have motion sickness! I should've known better, but I got so sick halfway through all that whirling... I'm getting sick now just recalling the ride. I felt like hurling afterwards... until we walked in the Mad Hatter's shop and we got high again trying out the ridiculous hats. I had this Mickey-slash-JackSparrow, basically a pirate hat with Mickey's ears on it, in my hands and I really fell in love with it... but I guess practicality won over. It was too hot for that kind of felt hat. We went to Westernland later on and I bought a cowboy hat instead. LoL.
Splash Mountain is kinda like WaterLog in Brunei - only a little longer and it doesn't once fall backwards. We fell, instead, inside the mountain, into the darkness... where everybody started screaming like the dead. All the while this perky country tune was playing all around us. The last drop was probably the scariest, to me, because just when I thought that we'd be landing, the raft kept on falling, which to me felt like an eternity... but was probably a half-second. Oh well. It was a pretty good ride.
Farah wanted to go canoe after that... at which the thought itself made me queasy. Splash Mountain made me a little motion sick too so I really couldn't think of going on another one any more... so we went for a slow ride... around with the train. It was kinda cute really with all the babies around us. Literally.
Just when we were about to leave Disneyland... we found the 7 Dwarfs!! We took pictures with Grumpy and Dopey... they were soooo cute. Dopey was totally cute!
Anyway, we left Disneyland around 5 and made our way to Harajuku to find gothic outfits for Farah, and we met Marlyn there. We were so tired that we slept on the train, it took nearly an hour to get from Disneyland to Harajuke. Around 7pm we went off to Shibuya to have dinner together with Anni at TGI Friday's. It was so good to just sit down and talk... noisy as it was already. LoL. We had to rush out anyway to catch our bus which was near Tokyo station - half an hour from Shibuya. We left Tokyo last night and now here I am - we've just arrived.
Now I've got to go back to reality and start on my Mansfield Park presentation for next week.
Omg I nearly forgot - we got a free hug in Shibuya. It was so cool. I thought at one point that these two guys hugging enthusiastically knew each other, and then the next thing I knew one of them was carrying a card that said "Free Hugs". Guess what happened when I told this to Farah?
Heheheheheh. Let's just say, if the aim of Free Hugs was to make the world a warmer, happier place - then it might just work. LoL
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