Monday, November 29, 2010

Wizards and Wishes

Have kind of been eating, sleeping, and breathing Harry Potter recently. Reread all the books (meant to only do the last in preparation for seeing the new movie, but somehow ended up reading the whole series) and had a multi-day moviefest with Clare and Yoko, ending with a journey to the cinema to see the new film (complete with photoshoot). Finished reading today and kind of don't know what to do with myself now. It was good times though! I hadn't seen any of the movies in ages, and hadn't read the books in longer, so it was nice to return to the wizarding world.

Took a break from the Potterness on Tuesday to go to DisneySea (I had a day off since it was a holiday!) for the zillionth time. It was lovely. Holiday overlay! Christmas Wishes! My favorite bit of decor was KING TRITON AS SANTA. With dolphin reindeer. It was crowded, but we still managed a lot of Fastpasses and didn't wait long for anything really. Ate delicious foods! Bought a stupid (but warm) hat! Super enjoyment times! Never forget.

For Thanksgiving on Thursday, continued our tradition from last year and went out for Indian. Nothing says Thanksgiving like sag paneer. Would have been lovely to watch the Macy's Parade and watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (but thanks for the e-card, Mum, even without toast sounds!) and see family-type people, but it was lovely too to enjoy dinner with my Tokyo family. Love!



Monday, November 15, 2010

Merry Christmas!

Okay, so it's super early for Christmas, but Japan has been celebrating it for quite a while now. And I did enjoy some Christmas decor last night. We went to the Tokyo Disney Resort in the evening to enjoy the fireworks (from the ticket queue area of DisneySea) and Sweets Paradise and seasonal merchandise. All lovely! Quite enjoyed the Ikspiari decorations, especially once we figured out that ringing the wishing bell is what made the tree have a light show and play a song (sometimes a Disney song, as in the video, sometimes a Christmas song). Delightful!

Anyway, how much do I love that I live where I can just randomly decide to hang around the Disney resort for the evening? SO MUCH LOVE. Hopefully I'll get to enjoy the actual parks for the Christmas season, but it was pretty nice just hanging out in the general vicinity for a while.

In non-Christmas news, exciting Osaka trip in a couple weeks! To see Wicked! CANNOT WAIT.