The Recap

Now that I have recovered from the past week of sheer awesome, I will attempt to recap all that occurred, in chronological order!

Feb. 28 - A 4 P.M. arrival turns into a 10 P.M. arrival. Both me and Michael are exhausted and end up missing our check-in at the hotel due to the delay and on top of that, had to take the local (read: SLOW) trains to Ueno from Narita because after he was through customs and all that jazz, the Limo-Bus' were no longer running and neither was the Skyliner.

After a very long ride to Ueno, we have to seek out a hotel for that night since we can't go to our Ryokan until the next morning, and we find one in Ueno, burning through ~$100 for one night at Hotel Kinuya due to United Airline's stupidity. We take shower, bath (ofuro~), and crawl into bed wiped out from the day.

Mar. 1- Up bright and early, we quickly pack up everything for morning check out. Armed with luggage and a GPS, we decide to walk from Ueno to our ryokan in Asakusa. Word to the wise: do NOT wear heeled boots =_=; by the time we got to Toukaisou, my feet were killing me, and we weren't finished there. Due to not arriving at the proper time the day before, Mike was unable to exchange money, and since it was the weekend, there were no banks open save for ATMs -- no go there. Thus, we had to go to a Travelex in Akihabara to exchange money, and that in of itself was an adventure considering it's not "next" to the Yodobashi Camera like we thought it was, but in a side plaza that even made the GPS go "WTF mate?"

Money exchanged, we hightail it back to Asakusa to pay for hotel and to get settled in (and for me to switch shoes) and we go off on an adventure for food. I believe we did Coco-Ichi for delicious curry. Then it was wandering around Akiba until we headed back and crawled into bed.

Mar. 2 - TOKYO DISNEYLAND! What a fun day was had! After 23 years, I finally made it to a Disney themepark after coming so close to Disneyworld on two separate occasions. So much freaking fun and nostalgia. I got teary eyed a few times inside, especially when the first song I hear when entering the park was the theme from "Beauty and the Beast". Space Mountain, Magic Kingdom, Fantasyland, Adventureland, Westernland...I got to ride Pirates of the Caribbean finally! It was a lot of fun all things said and when we returned to Toukaisou, that is when this happened:



Followed by:



Then there was much snuggling and sleeping.

Mar. 3 - Weather turned to crap, so we decided to just stay in the general Asakusa-Ueno area and tried to do some Geocaching and Wereigo's in Ueno park only to be unsuccessful as either the caches were sanitized or were difficult multi-caches. Did 250-yen lunch boxes and later went out with Corey and Maya to a bar in Ginza before turning in for the night.

Mar. 4 - Adventures in Shibuya and acquiring tickets for Ghibli, as well as having Mike experience Gyudon. Nummy nummy Gyudon. We arrived in Shibuya on the hunt for a Lawson's in order to acquire tickets for Ghibli Museum. Tickets got, we head off to Mitaka to enjoy a nice afternoon at the awesome of Ghibli museum :3

...and that's all for now. I need to continue sorting pictures and piecing everything together again.