Last of Tokyo Photos

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I just wanted to post all these photos and move on.

Trying to catch up. Arghh!!!

Here is some yoghurt from downstairs that I had for breakfast.

I thought the bottle was very cute. I think the yoghurt was actually set in the bottle.

Toasted roast vegetable sandwich for breakfast.

Wish I had one now...Mmmmm Toasties in Winter are the best!

Pistachio cake. Sooooooooo good !!! Ommmggg. Makes Brunettis seems horrible in comparison. Haha!

Here is a photo of D taking a photo of me. We do this kind of thing. Haha.

Cool shop fit out in Shinjuku...

I really want it for my house.

Oh and I forgot to post about these Harajuku crepes last time I did my Harajuku post.

They are so yummy. A heart attack in a crepe!!!

Mmmmmm SO yummy!!

Crepe envy.

But then 2 mins later I get my own crepe! YAY

Taste test !!

Crepe Success!!

I got Strawberry cheesecake. SO gross but so yummy.

There is a Harajuku crepe style store in Melbourne Central if anyone wants to try one!

Here are some cakes we got from the cake shop downstairs at the hotel.

I have no idea what this was. I just got it because it looked weird.

Some sort of flour noodle cake that had some sort of booze in it.

It was weird.

Looks like raw spaghetti no?

This cake was SOOOOOO yummy!

I'm not usually all into desserts but the presentation of cakes in Japan sucks you in.

The cream and raspberries in this made it so nice.

MmMMmmmMMMm...

Ordering coffee in different countries is always interesting.

I think we have the best coffee in Melbourne.

I don't understand why other countries have horrible coffee.

Anyway,

D and I ordered " 2 soy lattes"

and this came....

I think thats enough to make about 8 cups of coffee.

Not too sure what the brown stuff is...????

I think the white was just warmed up soy milk.

It was weak.

We received this lovely chocolate bar thing.

I remembered it from the last time we went to Japan. It's very nice. The apricot bit is my favourite. I love apricot!

This is the window in our room !!!

I was so scared to do this ! I think I asked D a million times "So, are you sure the window wont fall out?"

But I did it ! My heart was beating so fast. I hate heights!!

I think we were on the 46th floor. Is that right D? I cant remember.

My face is all sorts of weird here. I think I was feeling v nervous about being so close to the window and just wanting D to hurry up and take the photo. Eeek!

I wish I had another photo that wasn't so wanky posey but I don't. You can all laugh at this one. Laugh at my expense. Just not too much. Hahaha

On the 43rd floor we had a pasta lunch before leaving Tokyo! I think the place is called Grindole. I could be wrong.

I had some sort of power smoothy. It cost about 6 times the amount of a bloody boost juice.

It was odd.

I'm not sure if it made me feel better.

They had them in the Paris Park Hyatt too but I never tried one.

I was feeling a bit tired and lethargic so I thought I would try the power smoothy.

I liked the presentation.

The bread stick was really good.

Yummy salad!

All the salads I had in Japan were sooo nice! Crispy and crunchy. The lettuce was never soggy or soft.

Thank you Japan for your fantastic lettuce. I enjoyed it.

Some random bronze fish downstairs at the entrance.

Hello Fish.

Good-bye Park Hyatt Tokyo

:( :( :( :(

I want to go back nowwwwwwwwwww :( :( :(

Arghh. That took FOREVER!!

I am going to go get a coffee to restore my energy levels.

Have a lovely day everyone!!!!

New York Bar & Grill and Shinjuku at night.

After our long days in Tokyo we liked to go upstairs to the New York Bar & Grill for nightcaps.

It had nice cocktails and a live jazz band every night. They were v good.

It is one of my favourite places in Tokyo.

The view at 52 storeys high is pretty amazing too ! It's where they shot Lost in Translation as well. If you have seen the movie you might remember the scenes in the bar?

I wore this Kirrily Johnston kaftan style dress. It is such a good travel dress because it is crinkle style so no ironing required! WOO!!

I wore this Make Believe necklace that D got me for Christmas last year. I don't think I have blogged about it yet?? Not sure.

Anyway, here it is!

It's pretty heavy. I get neck pains wearing it.

I might have a sensitive neck so don't let it put you off if you were thinking about getting on.

I wore my hair up this night because it was quite late and no time to get ready.

I think it makes me look like a boy. It's a very rare sighting of me with hair up. Haha!

Here we ordered a "Dessert tasting plate for 2"

UM Who are these 2 people? Giants??!!!

This is huge !!!

It's seriously like a dessert plate for 8 !!

I'm not complaining. We smashed it.

Ha ha ! It did take about an hour though.

New York Cheesecake with raspberry and cream.

I think this was strawberry ice-cream and kiwi fruit gelati. I'm not 100% sure. D correct me if I'm wrong.

I love fresh mint though. I always eat it and D freaks out because he thinks its for decoration only.

Meh!

This passionfruit tart was ULTRA tangy. My mouth goes all weird just thinking about it.

It was nice though.

Some sort of chocolate brownie number.

I would say this was the least nice of the 4 because its nothing special really.

Just a bit of chocolate and flour.

Meh

Nice clear shot of the sky?

Hahhaha

How funny is this photo?

With the flash off it creates the weirdest photos if there is movement.

I look like I'm doing some sort of karate action.

The lights of Shinjuku.

Here is Pachinko. I've never played. It looks boring to me.

Lots of bikes.

D makes a nice little cameo there on the left.

Cute penguin.

This shop sold so many random things. It was open 24 hours.

On our last trip to Japan we had to make a emergency suitcase purchase at midnight and it saved my ass. Thank you penguin shop!

Down a side street...

Noodles...

Laneway bar..

And that is the end of the post!

I have to get back to Mothers Day duties.

I just wanted to post today because I realised it has been a little while since the last one.

Hopefully I will be able to finish the Japan posts this week!

Hope you all have a lovely Mothers Day!!

Tokyo Disneyland

D and I decided to visit Disneyland last minute in Tokyo. I thought we would give it a miss this time because we had been before, but we decided to go because we always have such fun and the weather forecast was clear for a nice day.

We headed in after lunch around 2ish and there was ZERO crowds. So bizarre.

So as soon as we arrived it started raining. A lot. Even though every media outlet said it was 0% of rain that day at the skies were clear. That is my luck. It has rained the last THREE times I've been to Disneyland. Weird huh?

Anyway,

Sucks to be Peter Pan because he had to fight off the pirates in his poncho.

I'm glad they had a Time Out before starting their sword fight to get weather appropriate.

Tigger joined in the pirade. He is very fluro isn't he?

Look at ol Pooh Bear in the corner down there.

We went on mandatory Teacup ride.

YAY!

I got Mickey ears btw. And I bought a big black hoodie because it was a lot colder than I anticipated.

I take the Teacups ultra seriously because it is my mission to make D spew.

We got some chips to try and get our energy levels up. It's one of the only vegetarian snacks at the park that is not 99% sugar. The kids love sugar don't they? Disneyland knows it. Everything is sugar x 100000.

But thats not important,

What is going on here?

Where is the rest of my chips?

Why do they only fill it up HALF WAY?

McDonalds in Japan does the same thing.

Cant they see I'm a greedy overfed westerner here?

I need my fat intake for the day.

How dare they.

Here is a little video I took in the Winnie the Pooh ride.

I didn't have the camera up to my face so it's a bit all over the place but you get the general idea.

It does have sound, so for those of you who are being sneaky at work, put our computer on MUTE.

YAY!

Cute yeah? If you watched it with no sound, try and watch it again later with sound so you can hear the cute Japanese narrative.

Here is some snack we had. It was sweet potato in a stick form type of donut thing.

We had a chocolate flavour one too but it was way too chocolatey and had to go.

Thank you D for being my hand model on that shot. Nice work.

Below we have a Disney Duck that just wanders around looking cute and begging for food.

Everyone walks around with popcorn tubs at Disneyland and you fill them with different flavours in the different lands. So I think that duck man here wants popcorn.

You can get honey, curry, soy sauce, salt etc. Lots of different flavours.

Here we have the infamous

"It's a small world" ride. It is great. I LOVE IT.

You are allowed to take photos. It is probably the only ride that allows them in Disneyland.

Anyway,

First off

YOU ARE ON A BOAT. What's not to love?

Secondly,

It has this marvelous chlorine smell. Mmmm.

Everyone loves the smell of chlorine. If you say you don't, you are probably lying to yourself.

It's a pretty marvelous smell.

Here are the lovely kids of the world.

They do look like they want to stab you in the face.

How can this not creep children out?!

I think all the kids of the world have the same face and just different hair to determine their nationality/race.

What clever cost cutting Disney. It looks like the boys and girls even have the same face. hahaha

Here is a video. Once again, it has sound, so if you are at work, hit the MUTE button again.

But if you get a chance to watch again, do, its funny because its the song in other languages.

The whole thing is crazy.

CRAZY CHUCKY DOLLS

The crowd at Disneyland was basically non-existant.

The longest we waited all day for a ride was 7 minutes and that was for Winnie the Pooh.

The were no lines. It was weird but amazing.

We got to go on rides several times.

We would just come out the exit and go straight back to the start of the line on the other side.

SOOO GOOD!

My favourite rides at Tokyo Disneyland were:

Haunted House

Pirates of the Carribean

Winnie the Pooh

Then for dinner we had this lovely pasta. It was very nice for Disneyland food.

Very unexpected.

We headed home before the park closed because the fireworks were cancelled due to the rain.

In between 2.30 and 9 we would of gone on at least 10 rides and had lunch and dinner and did shopping and snacks and rests etc

That must be some sort of Disneyland record.

The princess castle makes me very excited.

I am not a girly girl. I dunno why. Maybe all the child hood memories of watching Disney films and how much I loved them?

My favourite Disney film as a kid was probably Roger Rabbit or Aladdin.

I did love Little Mermaid as well.

Too many to pick just one!!!

What was your favourite Disney movies??