And Now For A Proper Update
December 12, 2002
It has been a very busy three days. Maki and Yuki came to Osaka, from Vancouver and Shikoku respectively and I hung out with for two days. I also saw two other guys whom I haven’t seen in ages. One guy, Taka, left for Japan around the time I got together with Eri - that’s over 2 years ago. Another guy, Ryota, I can’t remember when but maybe around last summer maybe. The first day we didn’t really do much but eat and go to a karaoke place. That place has these wireless pad dealies where you can search songs very easily, even for a guy who can’t really read japanese that well. It was a great idea. They only gave us two of those things for the 6 of us so we had a few regular books too. Dinner was great but I was falling asleep by the end.
Like I said yesterday, yesterday we went to USJ. It was awesome! It was way more fun than anything I could ever expect. The place is absolutely huge. The rides had all the videos and sounds from the american one except all voices are dubbed into Japanese. All the rides were pretty old though - I remember Back to the Future came out a long time ago. Still, since it has been more than a decade since I’ve been to the American one, all these rides except Jaws are new to me. They weren’t exactly scary. The closest thing to scary was Jurassic Park - there was a big drop at the end. It was pretty good. We got wet in three of the attractions. It was around 6 degrees or so. You do the math. We went to Backdraft to warm up. What surprised me the most were the prices. Although the stuff was much more expensive than the outside, the markup on things weren’t as high as they would be in a North American themepark. I almost felt I was saving money by going there.
I took a slew of pictures but my digital camera is refusing to turn on now. That’s just fucking wonderful. It has finally bit the dust, taking with it pictures of the biggest tourist place I’ve been to since the Eiffel Tower. I think I’ll have to buy one of those compact flash connectors. Probably faster anyway. Bitch camera.
