I left Ballarat on the shuttle bus, leaving behind a very sick foal and a distraught daughter! Not really the way you want to start a world trip. The Vet was to return a few hours after I left. The last I heard TJ was doing better.
The flight from Melbourne to Bangkok was good. Movies and TV shows on demand with personal monitors and I lost count of the meals, but they all tasted great. I had a 2 hour stop in the middle of the night before heading to Tokyo and arriving at 8.20 am. I think I slept most of that flight. I was given a welcome orchid just before we touched down. I counted 6 golf courses coming in over Tokyo!
Then it was a hurried bus ride to meet Dean and a rush to drop my bags off at his place before heading to Disney.
Mary Poppins and Bert gave me a great welcome.
But then so did Bert's fans! There is a whole sociology thesis on the investment these fans have in the world of Disney! I kept switching my thinking from "These are everyday, nice people" - to "What is going on here! Are these people obsessed or what!" The fan base that I met consists of everything from teenage girls to whole families, who go to Disney 2 to 4 times per week - every Sat & Sun at least, and are desperate enough to stand in the rain for two hours to save their best vatage spot for the parades. Now I would stand in the rain waiting for tickets to a U2 concert, or an important soccer game, but every weekend, twice a day, rain, snow, or shine!?!?
And because they worked out who I belonged to (not another middle aged western woman amonst the 50,000 there today!), I was pursued and treated like a celebrity myself. Now that is weird! Nice, but sooooo weird.
The night finished with a spectcular light parade. My poor camera had been overworked taking movie footage and the battery was too low to run the flash, so I will have to try again tomorrow.
6 comments:
What a great start, we were worried you wouldn't make it in time, when Dean called he hadn't heard from you yet.[TJ is fine now]. Celebrity Mum eh, awesome.
Wow! I hope you keep up the blogging over the next few weeks. I love to stay updated! Sounds like a crazy whirlwind at Disney Tokyo... How cool.
I made it the Bansabai hostel in Bangkok, even if my taxi driver got lost and kept making funny little sounds as we meandered through the back streets for an hour.
It's great to hear you made it to Thailand OK. Is Sarah there yet?
SARAH ARRIVED THIS MORNING AND WE WILL UPDATE OUR BLOGS TONIGHT!
i would love to read that sociology thesis. i can already begin to think of a number of reasons why people might be obsessed with the personification of celebrity.
sounds like your having a great time.
stay in touch. corey
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