After a night of trying to sleep with the endless murmur and vibration of the ferry's engine beneath our THIN mattresses, it was rise and shine at about 5am. ok.. realised tt was a MISTAKE. Cuz we went for breakfast at 550am ard there, BUT then! breakfast starts only at 630 lahhh. DOTX. need nt have woken up that early! hmm, anyway, we left the ferry at around 7 plus am and boarded this terribly squeesy squashy minivan ( ok lah, thats why its called a MINIvan). Our next destination? where else but Universal Studios Japan (USJ)!!! our bus reached there really early, about 8 plus am. The gates open only at 9 plus tho.. so had to wait for an hour plus before vehicles were allowed to enter. Just look at the snaking queue behind our bus!



Another round of waiting awaited us at the main entrance. Cuz the gates to the rides and all opened at ard 1030am or so only.

Look at wl and ernie! elmo's cousins reincarnate..teehee

Excited Shany wif the tix...

We were in for another surprise when the gates eventually opened. GUESS WAD? everyone (ok.. almost) started RUNNING/SPRINTING. ermmms...one might be mistaken that there was a million yen prize somewhere. Then it struck us, they were running to be the FIRST for the rides!! Being the true blue Sporeans we are, we did not want to lose out rite? but also, dun want malu ourselves by running cuz even if we ran we wont know where we running to also.. so.. we just walked FASTER FASTER lo.

First ride= ET ride!! Did not havta wait long for this ride.. but the next one that we went to was SPIDERMAN ride!! 40 mins wait lehhh~~ (poor shany hada wait outside for us.. as for most of the other rides too... =( )wahha so fun! alot of 3D effects there.


Next up was JAWS ride followed by Jurassic Park ride!!! walalala.. got SO darn wet from these 2 can! actually got this feeling tht will get wet when we were in the queue for jurassic, cuz alot of ppl in the queue were wearing ponchos! hrm.. anws, while we were queing for 55 mins approx, shany went to buy the huge TURKEY LEG for our lunch.. oosh.. reminds me of the time i went to USA's themeparks!! always see ppl eating those colossal turkey legs there too haha.

Looks so calm and harmless eh?

But then! Just look at how drenched we were! (esp me and wl.. haha.. rusy n ernie stil look quite dry hhaha)

Waiting in line for the JAWS ride...

And here's our lunch!

All this while, we were contemplating taking the Hollywood Dream. Finally got the guts to go for it wif RU (shes the bravest lahhhh). Sounds like a Dream ride eh? holy COWs.. i think they should consider renaming it Hollywood SCREAM. Everyone were like screaming like mad! Its a super uber scaryyyy rollercoaster ride! the very FIRST time I took this kind of ride ( i think same for wl too? haha) thankfully they had music blasting from the seats.. kinda distracted us from all those plunges. Felt like i could CONQUER the world after the ride.. felt soo brave.. after all, if i could conquer that ride, the world is NOTHING.( ok.. im exaggerating abit.. =X)

Popped by the Hollywood shops selling all kinds of souvenirs too. A mini slide show plus some other miscellaneous pics...

Left USJ at about 3pm for Shinsaibashi Street for shopping~! ok lah..i din really manage to get anything there.. spent only abt an hour there. But ru and en managed to buy some er-hrm stuff there tho hehe! Then it was off for a buffet dinner ( got spread of italian, chinese and Japanese food).

Miss ru's creation...

and some desserts~

Cute?? (Doesnt come wif the buffet tho.. spotted it outside another restaurent heh )

There were after dinner activities too! It was off to the Bullet train station for a 10 min plus ride. Saw this "coffin" type hotels, its usually for ppl like drunkards to sleep for the night. its just a bed, but its like rows and rows of them stacked like drawers in a cupboard.. so interesting!

Happy girls wif their Bullet Train tix!

With the head of the train in the background..

yawnss.. train ride wasnt very interesting.. it was already qt dark and couldnt really see the scenery outside.. so ended up tking some pics! heh

Finally could head back to our hotel! Prince hotel.. overlooking the Lake Biwa ( a lake that's even larger than Singapore... according to our tourguide). Whewww.. what a hectic hectic but funnn day!


sign off,
~qi~