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Today began with me waking up before the alarm went off. While waiting to go to the airport, my sister and I hung out in the hotel lobby. Then, we ate at Carl's Jr, where I had chicken stars and potato rounds. After this, we drove to the airport, and a few minutes before we arrived, an emergency alert came on, and I thought it was a major earthquake until I realized that I read that magnitude 7 earthquakes happen only twice every few weeks throughout the world in an article about a recent earthquake in Japan. It turned out to be a missing adult alert.

On the bus to the airport, someone had a Bluey scooter with them, likely to give some kid as a present. It reminded me of the fun times I had at Disneyland at Troubadour Tavern watching the Best Day Ever show from the tables there (now that's a neat trick to remember if you can't get into the show itself!). Also, when I shared pictures of the food I ate there on social media with people who I knew were Bluey fans, everyone was jealous! The bus driver did make a funny announcement about accidentally taking your rental car keys to the airport with you, and someone tried to connect their airpods to my phone. I also saw many people with bag charms before we went to security, specifically Labubus.

After security, we went to do something that I had only seen in Eric Struk's airline review videos: visiting a special lounge! But compared to the ones I saw in his videos, this one was super fancy. And I had lots of yummy food there, like chicken that tasted like the plant-based nuggets KFC once served and a sea salt brownie. At the gate, there was a woman my age watching Bocchi the Rock! on an iPad.

On the plane, a girl who had a Bluey backpack and her mom, who we first saw printing luggage tags for our bags, sat near us. We took off when I was listening to Dua Lipa's Levitating at the "Let's get lost on Mars" part. I first watched the first Sunrise Kaiketsu Zorori movie, Nazo no Otokara Daisakusen, which played with a Keroro movie, hence characters from that cameoing during the invention audition scene and a bee dressing like Keroro. The film itself was about a girl named Tail trying to go on a quest to find treasure that her dead father attempted to find in the past in an old castle and the pirate Tiger setting out to destroy Zorori. It was not as good as the other Zorori movies, as the plot confused me a little. I did, however, like the fourth wall break where the antagonists read actual Zorori books. Maybe it would've been more interesting if the movie included Nelly and Najou and was a breather film between parts of the storyline about them in the actual show.

Then, I decided to play Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream, and the following happened:

* Khalil from VeggieTales reported on a missing copy of Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. Kermit the Frog said this happened all the time as a kid...when VeggieTales likely didn't exist when he was introduced!

* Nelly and Crispy watched Star Detective Pretty Cure.

* I fed Nelly from Kaiketsu Zorori yakisoba, which she likes in the show, and she just "liked it".

* Jonah from VeggieTales got into a fight with Captain Zelza from The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, and they easily made up, only for Jonah to crush on Zelza again.

* Xena from The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin made friends with Cousin Hodie from Donkey Hodie by talking about Cousin Hodie's pet rock, Dotto the Rocko, which Xena first heard about a year ago.

* Kermit the Frog fell down and Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters helped him, only for Kermit to crush on her.

* In a cutscene with Kuu from Inai Inai Baa and Donkey Hodie, Kuu said they wanted to change their hairstyle and Donkey Hodie said their regular hair reminded her of her grandparents. Grampy Hodie doesn't have similar hair...

I then decided to do some drawing. I drew Azuki from LuluttoLilly, and attempted to draw KonpeitoLilly, but it was too hard, so I went on my social media groups.

* In a VeggieTales group, someone shared a meme asking why people nowadays call paired pink and green things "Wicked" instead of Cosmo and Wanda, a post about one of the Veggie characters eating blueberry pie in a social media post showed up, to which I responded with the infamous "Feel The Beat" scene from Celery Night Fever where Khalil chops up veggies and feeds them to a crowd of vegetables and someone found 2017 Teddy Ruxpin books at a thrift store (which is rare because those physical copies only came with an exclusive version of the toy from either QVC or Target, as it mostly utilized an app).

* In a Nickelodeon group, the members celebrated the 34th anniversary of Kirby, a reveal of a replica GameBoy cartridge containing many Rugrats GameBoy games was announced, with the poster of the news revealing that the replica NES cartridges for Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland could destroy said system, someone recognized a TV station that actually aired Elf Bowling: The Movie as a Telemundo affiliate, and someone posted a funny image of a kid from Recess pointing at the Toon Disney logo.

* In a PBS Kids group, the group's admin was surprised that people actually watched Scaredy Squirrel on Tubi because someone on another site ranted about it being pulled from there, the same admin showed off an old Arthur plate and also talked about Jerry Springer's death being three years ago, since Arthur spoofed him.

* In a friend's group, a new isekai anime about space was discussed, the death of the G rating was discussed due to Toy Story 5's rating being PG, and I mentioned Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie getting a G despite what my sister told me about it (a scene where Chumsley mentions indigestion and the "Looks like Cakey got bakey!" scene), the death of a Marvel comic writer due to motor neuron disease was discussed, and someone showed an unfortunately-designed Bowser from Mario toy from the 80's.

* In the other PBS Kids group I'm in, someone asked what premieres we'd expect to see in July, and it was revealed the PBS Kids website went down for a few hours.

I then went back on Tomodachi Life:

* Kana Arima asked me if she loved Khalil.

* Acorn from Crispy in No Place Like Home made friends with Teto Kasane by talking to her about her friend Hatsune Miku, and Acorn impersonated Miku.

* I made the two wands from LuluttoLilly. Mashululu liked her wand, while Konpeito Lilly really liked hers.

* Cure Mystic asked me if she and LarryBoy were a great pair, and Emu Otori did the same thing with her and Nelly.

* Konpeito Lilly sang a song about a Choco Smash Bar (from Disney's California Adventure) on her guitar.

I then went on another social media site and saw the following posts:

* A cute drawing of a girl from Pokopia

* Some people's pulls on a Pokémon trading card app

* Someone's first attempt at making Japanese milk bread

* A joke about the soundtrack to a Sonic the Hedgehog game

* A scene from the kids' PC game "The Smelly Mystery"

* A cute video of a dog seeing a postman

* Fanart of Cure Arcana Shadow as a maid

* A needle felt plush of a shiny Wurmple

* A post about Popsicle pudding pops

* A funny Erika Kurumi reaction face from Pretty Cure All Stars DX2

* A post about a local airing of Star Detective Pretty Cure episode 9

* A person talking about how fun the GameBoy era of gaming was.

* Someone showing Himitsu no AiPri keychains they got

* A post about Finding Nemo cereal, which I replied to with mentioning my favorite Kelloggs Disney cereal, Mud and Bugs

* A scene from a Disney comic with a human man sneakily eating a bon bon

* A post about Pepsi Kona

* Someone who bought the I Choose You Pikachu plush off Vinted for four pounds

Then, I went on TikTok and saw:

* A video showing how cool Orlando hospitals are

* A video about a special edition of The House At Pooh Corner

* An official video of the Sailor Moon costume character at Fan Fest Nights (who I didn't see because her line was long...)

* Someone singing this week's Disney Parks news

* A tutorial on how to dye your hair like Cure Wink

* Someone showing off the fart quirk in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream

* A tour of a Japanese Toys R Us, which showed the Tamagotchi section (which had some American merchandise like the Adventure Backpacks) and some Monpoke stuff

* Photos from a Harajuku store dedicated to Hatsune Miku

* A video of The Queen of Hearts Banquet Hall at Tokyo Disneyland

* Muppets merchandise at a Disney Store Outlet

* Someone who got Blue's Clues and G3 My Little Pony stuff at a thrift store

I then nearly had a freakout because my Suwawa doll went missing! After looking everywhere for her in my area, I found her...stuck between the seats. After finding her, I listened to music for the rest of the ride. We landed exactly at 9:00PM during the second chorus of the Meitantei Pretty Cure ending.

And with that, my trip comes to a close.

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This morning had us woken up by our room's alarm clock on accident. Following preparations to leave, we took a morning walk along CityWalk, which was quiet. Because I was so bored, I watched the recent Star Detective Pretty Cure on my phone, and it was good, but I didn't like how the mystery at the beginning was rushed, and how a lot of the first half was stock sequences. Following this, we just went back to our room, where I played Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and bought a Kaiketsu Zorori keychain set online that included Nelly.

Then, we went to a restaurant called Red Maple for brunch. There was a street food fair nearby, too, so we looked there beforehand. One stand sold Japanese food, including mochi from a shop I passed by in Little Tokyo called Fugeteu-Do, which we saw before we crossed the street on our way back from Marukai and stumbled upon the Kinokuniya that didn't have Kaiketsu Zorori books. They also had a radio playing old Japanese music, and one of the cassette tapes laid out was a Sailor Moon character song tape! After my brother showed up a little late, we went inside. We sat next to this weird device that produced heat. The table next to us had a baby, who surprisingly wasn't using a tablet or iPhone, and a large golden dog who kept looking at my shoes (this happens a lot with dogs and my pink sneakers). I had a chicken sandwich and fries, the former of which tasted like Chick Fil A.

After that, we went to Burbank Town Center. I noticed a lot of stores in there are now in full blind-box selling mode. Their Miniso was also pretty big compared to most mall locations, and I wound up getting plush keychains of Young Mametchi from Tamagotchi and Bubbles' plush octopus from The Powerpuff Girls, and a figural keychain of Tata from BT21. I also got a new Juicy Couture purse from Burlington, and the line there moved pretty fast. We also checked out Round One over there, but didn't play anything, as the prizes weren't that interesting, save for some Vocaloid plushies.

Since Mom was tired, this was the perfect opportunity to go to CityWalk and eat Raising Cane's again. It was still delicious! Then, I returned to the hotel. After this, my family decided to look at something for Brandon, then took us to the Netflix shop and Miniso on Hollywood Boulevard, where I got a Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters Funko POP! and Chiikawa T-shirts, respectively. Following this was dinner at Bubba Gump's. The chicken cutlet I had was good, but the dessert was cold.

And that's all I have to say about this trip. Tommorrow, I leave.

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Today started with my sister waking me up because she learned Gabby from Gabby's Dollhouse was meeting at Universal, so we decided to head there. We decided to wait for her and met Shrek and Poppy from Trolls while waiting, and waited a little more until a staff member told her she was delayed, so we had breakfast at Three Broomsticks, and I also got a very delicious Sailor Moon churro (yes, the Fanfest Nights food is sold during the day too)! We then waited again for the time they told us to come back, and she comes out a minute later than what they said alongside Poppy from Trolls. When I did go meet her, she copied the peace sign pose I did for the picture.

Following this was The Simpsons Ride, which had us seated with some chatty teens! Then, my sister went to ride Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey alone while I waited in Honeydukes, where I bought the love potion candy. Then, we rode Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge. I was seated with a mom and daughter who were quiet until the end when the mom said "Let's take a photo!" and they did just that. After this was the Jurrasic World ride, where I was seated with a teen girl and had a woman with a Shiro from Crayon Shin-Chan hairclip in front of me. The teen girl made funny comments during the ride, like "Get ready to wet your pants!", "Oh shit, not this!", "I'm not ready for this!" and "This is like a bad dream!".

After this, we had lunch at the Jurrasic Park restaurant, where I had sausage and cheese bites. It tasted really great when paired with mayo! I also got a fried cheesecake, but it was too doughy for me. While waiting for my sister to come back from the Mummy ride, I ate popcorn and freeze dried cheesecake, both of which were good.

Then, we did Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem. On the ride, me and my sister were among the people picked for the "haven't showered" group, along with some men. On the way back while waiting for our The Secret Life Of Pets: Off The Leash! reservation, we saw Gabby from Gabby's Dollhouse again. When we got on the Pets ride, we slowed down for a few seconds in one scene, but everything else was normal.

I then took a break in the hotel room. I napped, ate a snack and looked on YouTube, where I watched a video where a vocal coach reacted to KATSEYE's songs, which I was hearing for the first time, that was recommended to me.

Then, it was time to leave for dinner at an Italian restaurant. On the way there, I saw many movie billboards, a funny billboard that said "Hot girls who pooped today" and the Klasky Csupo building, the latter of which we always pass when going to Little Tokyo. The restaurant was right near the SiriusXM headquarters, which was cool, as my parents use that radio service. The restaurant itself had a wall of drawings people did, and one was Bluey. Behind us, a table talked about visiting Canada, a woman had a variant of a sweater I once got off SHEIN (mine was a lighter pink than theirs and had just bows instead of bows and hearts like theirs), and two groups celebrated birthdays. I had a lasagna that was comforting, but lacked flavor, as well as a creamy creme brulee.

And that ended our day. Tomorrow is my last day.

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My day began with a walk around Downtown Disney and an attempt to eat breakfast at a hotel restaurant...and I hated the item I ordered so much (an egg sandwich) that I ate Pizza Pretz in the room instead. While at the restauant, I learned that Kinokuniya had moved an eight minute drive away from the main Little Tokyo area, so my plans to get Kaiketsu Zorori books were crushed, but I could still get the other things I wanted, plus I would have more money than what I was expecting, as the books cost $20 each and I wanted two of them. Because of this, I plan on getting Zorori books as a birthday present.

After being in the room for a while, we finally left the hotel and headed to Little Tokyo. While on our way there, someone had two Umamusume peeker stickers, one of them being Haru Urara, and that made me wonder if they'd sell any merchandise of it there, even though my goals were Kaiketsu Zorori and Pretty Cure merchandise, as well as socks (I didn't bring enough on the trip to wear with my shoes!).

What I didn't know is that the day would go wrong for me. First, we tried checking Tokyo Central Kawaii for some stuff from Pretty Cure, only for them to only have a card holder. I then went into the main Marukai, only for the only options to be a cheap name plate keychain, the same card holder, and...figurines I already got in December. Then, I realized when walking there was a Kinokuniya, so I could check that for Kaiketsu Zorori books....which they did not have, but they did have a Star Detective Pretty Cure book and a book about...Italian Brainrot? Following this, we swung by BOOK-OFF...and most of the Pretty Cure stuff was keychains or stuff I had years ago. Failing this, we checked Anime Jungle...and they only had a Hugtan mask, but I did find something very cute I wound up purchasing for only $17: A Suwa Nanaka My Melody and Kuromi collab plush that felt very much like a Squishmallow. And after looking it up online, I saw that it goes for a lot of money. After failing to find stuff in various other shops and buying a pizza bun and melon bread, I looked in Nijiya..and they bought back candy toys to their store, having the Cutie Figures for You and Idol Pretty Cure! I got Cure Idol and Cure Zukyoon. Then, we stopped at Sanrio, and the only socks they had...were warm ones to wear in the winter months. In April.

That's when we decided to leave Little Tokyo and go to Century City. First, we stopped at CAMP because they did a collab with one of my sister's favorite shows, Gabby's Dollhouse. The merchandise was basically what you'd find at a retail store, but they had some exclusives. Another interesting thing was that they had a slime-making experience. Following this was POP MART, where I got a Molly keychain and a Sanrio Labubu that turned out to be Kuromi, which matched my Suwa Nanaka doll. Then, it was time for American Girl, which had new things such as Disney Princess dolls and cloth dolls of the historical characters. I also noticed this store didn't have Isabel and Nicki (the twin 90's dolls from the historical collection) in stock, but the 80's doll Courtney was. Our fourth and last stop was the Sanrio Build A Bear, which reminded me of the one at ICON Park in size. We then ate food from AC Barbeque for lunch, which was very good!

I then decided to look in several shops, including the LINE Friends store, Hot Topic (where I got an Esther Bunny plush and Totoro socks), and the Universal animation shop. We then ate Raising Caine's for the first time, and oh my gosh was it amazing, especially the sauce!

Before we knew it, it was time for Fanfest Nights. Upon hearing that Sailor Moon would have events there, I chose Sailor Moon for my costume. I first did the Sailor Moon show, which was pretty fun and reminded me of one of those Japanese costume character stage shows. Then, we did the Scooby Doo backlot tour, which I found so confusing I left early. At this point, I got overstimulated by the loud music and bright lights, so I decided to head back to the hotel.

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The day began with us rope dropping Disneyland for Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway...only for us to be evacuated as we sat down because the ride wasn't working, making it my first evacuation off a ride at any Disney Park. Then, we rode Snow White's Enchanted Wish, which was too short in length to me. Then, we rode Peter Pan's Flight, which was beautiful. Following this was breakfast at Red Rose Taverne. While waiting for the food, I saw a family in Bluey shirts that referenced the episodes "Stumpfest" and "Unicorse", I overheard someone think that you needed to stay on site to use the mobile app, saw a baby with a "no touching" sign on their stroller, heard a toddler girl cry for her Little Mermaid bottle, saw a band pass by playing music and a woman had a Kero-chan from Cardcaptor Sakura keychain.

I then did Tiana's Bayou Adventure by myself. In the queue, a girl named Maddie and her cousins were there. She mentioned having beignets for breakfast, said she saw Bing Bong at the Pixar Hotel when she saw my bag, mentioned the Minion Mayhem ride at Universal when she farted, and she yelled "Help me, Ernie!" as a joke. In front of me on the vehicle were these teens named Gabby, Lilly and Jillian (the latter of which is my real name), and behind me was a couple from Japan. The teens kept breaking rules, like taking selfies and putting their hands in the water. They also swore like sailors whenever they got wet, said "Guys, get ready to die!" when the "Time to get tiny!" drop occured, Gabby told the girls to duck when the big drop occured, and they thought there was a final drop at the end. After the ride, they were copying various scenes, and Gabby said "Time to find our photos!", with Lily replying "I don't even wanna see it!".

After this, I went in the Emporium and found a pretty Disney Princess dress and bought it. After this, we went to Pixar Place hotel and met Bing Bong, who made kissing noises like most mascot costumes at Disney (this happened last night with Chip at Goofy's Kitchen). Then, we went to the hotel to swim and play Tomodachi Life. After this, we went back to California Adventure, where I had popcorn that was super tasty before boarding Goofy's Sky School. I felt a little scared, so I sang the first Kaiketsu Zorori opening theme, Hustle, on the coaster. As I got out, these two men imitated Goofy's voice. But before I got on the ride, Mom informed me that my brother would be staying with us in our hotel room tonight. Then, after this, we decided to leave the park after I got a Mac and Cheese cone (which I hated) from Cars Land because my sister was overstimulated and the waits were so high (for instance, Monsters Inc. was 60 minutes and The Little Mermaid was 40 minutes) and go back to the hotel.

After a break, we went to Splitsville to eat. We were originally going to bowl after eating, but decided against it due to how pricey it was. While waiting to be seated, we saw a person's stroller I previously saw in the stroller parking for the first Bluey's Best Day Ever! show we witnessed in one of the dining rooms of the restaurant, as the accessories on it were the exact same ones I saw in that parking area. Next to us was this family with a toddler who was at first playing Pokémon Go, but was then playing with apps belonging to his mom later like Instagram and her Apple Wallet. The food at the restaurant was super delicious. I especially loved the chicken fried steak. I could just eat the coating of that if I wanted to as it was so flavorful! After this, I returned to the hotel and got my friend a gift, then returned to the room.

And with that, our stay at Disneyland ends. Tomorrow, I'm going to Little Tokyo and Century City.

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The day started when we were woken up by the alarm on the hotel room clock. I tried going back to sleep, but it didn't work, so my sister and I decided to rope drop rides at California Adventure. I rope dropped Radiator Springs Racers while she did Guardians of the Galaxy. In the holding area waiting to go in, I was standing next to a family from the United Kingdom, and I saw a lot of parents get out of the holding area to let their kids run around. I also saw someone with a Bocchi the Rock! plush keychain on their bag of the titular character, a kid who impersonated Mater, someone who suggested rope dropping is a good idea, someone with a Gelatoni pin, someone who mentioned Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, a girl with custom Bambi ears, a woman with pink hair, a kid who cried over a bird, another kid with a Cocomelon backpack, a teen boy who licked a Mickey lollipop, a person who mentioned the Bluey's Best Day Ever! show, a man who talked about the Sabrina Carpenter Muppet Show pilot, a man who imitated a train (which he did constantly during the last few minutes of waiting), a kid who sang Baby Shark, a girl who sang the chorus of Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters, a boy who sang the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme, but was yelled at by the British family, being told to "be quiet" and a woman rubbed her boyfriend's back. This girl also noticed my CookieAnn ears and said "Oh, it's that Disney bear from Japan's dog friend...I forget his name." They were also testing Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, and it played a song that began with what sounded to my ears like "I've seen everything". Then, Mater came out to greet the crowd, followed by a woman who tried to get the crowd hyped up 10 minutes later. When we began walking, Celebrate Happy came on, and as we walked, these girls made a human train, which others copied.

In the queue, a girl named Charlie, who wore a shirt of Huntrix in their Golden outfits, noticed my Bing Bong backpack and said his death scene was "the saddest scene in the world", a chatty man asked "You don't like beer? Why not?" and talked about imagineering's responsibilites, a boy said "I hope we get row six seven!", I saw a teen girl with dark pink hair, another teen girl had red hair and a Loungefly of SpongeBob and Patrick in a burger car, another teen girl had a ton of Squishmallow keychains, including a pink axolotl and a smores, a man wore an Inside Out 2 shirt that said "Today I feel..." on it, a toddler girl in Elsa shoes said "It's like going to the movie theater!" and a boy behind me jumped up and down. I wound up sitting with Charlie, who thought the ride was a rollercoaster. She was a little scared of the start, pointed out Mater, asked if the spray in the paint shop was water, screamed during the race part, asked "Is this the end?" at the end of the ride, to which her mom said "I hope not!" and she fake cried at the end of the ride.

Then, I rode The Little Mermaid. The ride stopped before it even began (and I even saw how the stops begin and start due to this), but the rest of the ride went uninterrupted. On the ride, the vehicle behind me was a toddler girl and her mom. While boarding, she told her mom she wanted to use the bathroom after the ride, complained that the lap bar was tight, and said she hated Ursula when her scene came on.

Then, I rode Silly Symphony Swings because Bing Bong's Sweet Stuff was closed. A boy on there was terrfied before it began, and the mom said that if he was fine on Goofy's Sky School, he will be fine on this. When the ride ended, a girl who rode it cried, and I understand why: it was so fast!

My fourth ride was Soarin', which we rode on with a mom and her daughter, who talked throughout the ride. Following this was Grizzly River Run, where we sat with this family who kept cracking jokes, with one of them being a reference to the "Aw shit, here we go again!" meme. Ride number six was Spider Man Web Slingers, where I beat my sister in score, but I nearly vomited at the end. I then had the PB&J Lab from Pym Test Kitchen, and it wasn't really that filling. Thank goodness I got a Choco Smash bar too!

After a break to swim in the pool, we went to Disneyland, looked in the emporium, and then I got the Pizza Girls baked potato and more poffertjes. While waiting, the Bluey show was going on, and it appeared to be the other version of the show, but at first I couldn't be in the area because they only allowed one person to pick up the order. After asking another person, they let me in, and by this time, the show was up to a segment about the grannies.

After this, we went on Rise of the Resistance, where we were seated with a man who had a Chiikawa bag of Hachiware. During the ride, some people laughed at the drop.

After resting in the hotel, we went to dinner at Goofy's Kitchen, which we haven't gone to since 2014. It was...rather dissappointing. While the character interactions were cute. Then, I had the bright idea to go to Bing Bong's Sweet Stuff...while my legs hurt in between from chaffing. It got so bad to the point where after we visited said store, I cried out loud. Thankfully, we did make it back to the hotel, where I relaxed.

Tomorrow is my last day at Disneyland. What will I do there?

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We got dropped off at the Pixar hotel, and when we went inside, we saw a woman with the same Bing Bong Loungefly as me waiting for him. But because I was hungry, we headed to Disneyland, but not without getting lost along the way.

We first had lunch at Plaza Inn, because I wanted to try the beautiful Stumpfest cake from Bluey. Besides that, I had a meatloaf meal. The meatloaf was good, but the Stumpfest cake kinda tasted like a prepackaged Little Debbie cake, but higher quality.

Our first ride was It's A Small World, which was pretty calming. I also noticed lots of little details I didn't notice before in the ride. I also sang along to the new verse at the end.

After this, we ate at Trobadour Tavern, where I had poffertjes, which tasted like mochi donuts, and the palova parfait, which was very fruity. But the best part was that the seating area overlooked the Bluey show, so I saw a good portion of it. A lot of it used the songs from the albums, so that was cool.

My second ride was Tiana's Bayou Adventure. I was seated with two women and a dad and his two girls, both wearing princess shirts. When the ride stopped before a lift, the dad screamed "Are you kidding me?", the two women danced to "Gonna Take You There", when Tiana said something was the bee's knees, one of the girls asked what the phrase meant, after the drop, the girl said "No wonder why we had to wait so long - it was awesome!" and then compared the ride to a similar log flume ride at another park (didn't catch the name), during the finale when our boat stopped, a girl said "Are we gonna be stuck forever, Dad?" and a woman found a water bottle in the boat at the end.

After this, we looked around Downtown Disney. I went inside a store that was supposed to have Duffy and Friends stuff...only for it to be sold out except for some Olu Mel items. The World of Disney store also didn't have an impressive selection. Then, we went to California Adventure and tried to do some Hoppers thing my sister wanted to see...only for the area she wanted to see to be roped off. I then got a Choco Smash bar, and although it tasted good, it was too gooey for me.

We then had dinner at Jazz Kitchen, where I had boudin balls which tasted comforting. I then went back to Disneyland to ride Big Thunder Mountain, which was fun. After that, I realized I had to go to the bathroom badly, after not going since I left the airport (bad idea on my part, since I think I got a UTI from that). Then, I waited in Star Traders while my sister rode Space Mountain and saw these pretty Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck ribbon keychains...that were $16. They also had vinyl decals of classic Disney Channel shows and movies, including the channel's logo. They also were playing Star Wars music in the shop, as I recognized several familiar tunes from that. While people watching in the shop, I saw a teen girl with a POP MART Crybaby plush keychain, a man called a Wildcats shirt a Drake and Josh shirt, a girl wore an Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go! shirt, someone wore a Mickey shirt that said "I don't do matching shirts", a woman petted a Porg plush and said "I desperately want my little Porg! It is my precious baby!" as she walked to the register, someone had a Touchland Hello Kitty hand sanitizer, a woman wore a shirt that said "In My Frozen Era", a woman puppeteered a Mickey plush for her baby and made silly noises with it, a boy asked "Mama, why don't they have Bluey?", someone talked about how Duffy and Friends merchandise was at Downtown Disney a week ago, a boy played Talking Tom, an old man had a Nightmare Before Christmas backpack that wasn't a Loungefly, someone had 2 10cm anime plushies I couldn't identify in an ita-bag and a Toy Story Tamagotchi Nano in one of the side pockets, there was a gold service dog in a red vest, there was a baby who had the Disneyland Bluey popcorn bucket and cup, a woman and man traded pins with a cast member, a woman had the green Have A Seat Labubu, another woman said "Look at these earrings, 19.99! What a steal!", there was a baby in a pink bear onesie, a kid was dressed as Buzz Lightyear, a man said "That is a cute teddy bear!" to me about my Pochitan, which I wore as a purse, a teen boy said "Fucking shit! This store's all overpriced!", a boy used the Stitch bubble wand inside the store, a toddler girl tried to touch my Pochitan only for her dad to say "No, we're leaving!", I heard the fireworks announcement, a woman had an Oliver and Company shirt, a woman wore a paper SuperKitties crown (I saw a few today, so they must've been given out somewhere!) and some girl poured the Bluey popcorn bucket into the tray of her stroller.

And that's it for today! Tomorrow we spend more time in California Adventure.

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Today began with me waking up at 3:30AM and having the Oshi no Ko song "POP IN 2" stuck in my head. After this, I did some last minute packing and watched some TikTok videos, many of which were related to Sailor Moon at Universal or Disney Character Warehouse. While waiting to go to the airport, I felt a little sick, but it went away minutes before our ride arrived. When the car arrived, it nearly hit the suitcase, so me and my sister screamed "Don't hit the suitcases!".

As we drove there, my vacation playlist's theme was "Pop songs associated with animated films". During a traffic jam on the way to the airport, our car passed by a car playing Bluey on a drop-down TV, which made me think of all the food that Disneyland has for that show currently, and it even made me hungry for the Stumpfest cake (which I find so pretty I recreated it in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream) and the poffertjes. I was warned, however, that to eat at the restaurant with the most Bluey food, it's encouraged you make a mobile order, like what happens on the East Coast with Woody's Lunch Box. We also passed by a car with little Minion plushies my work used to sell back when I began to work there nearly five years ago that also appeared in a claw machine at Amish View Inn and Suites in Lancaster, PA (yes, the one mentioned in the video The End Of The Cartoon Network Hotel) at one point. We also took a very strange route to the actual airport.

At our gate, we saw a kid reading a digital Pete the Cat storybook, which reminded me of how the TV show was one of a handful of Amazon originals for children (they seem to lack a lot of original shows in general) along with stuff like If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (which actually got exported outside of the US on Disney Junior Japan), some Angela C. Santomero shows (Creative Galaxy and Wishenpoof), Tumble Leaf and the Sigmund and the Sea Monsters reboot. I also saw a service dog which tried to go near my suitcase.

On the plane itself, I was seated near a lot of old people. One person in front of me read a book, and another watched the beginning of a movie where kids watched a Chinese dragon puppet before changing it to the flight info. When we took off, I had just begun Madonna's Material Girl on the in-flight 80's playlist.

First, I kicked things off with Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream, where the following happened:

* A news report was shown about baby yakitori, which had a lot of Kaiketsu Zorori references like talking about Najou and Nelly...and then somehow threw in the Stumpfest cake from Disneyland (I made it into a custom item).

* At the restaurant, an event showing genderswapped versions of my self-insert Hoshiko, Mashulu from LuluttoLilly and Cure Idol was shown, with Cure Idol saying she lipsynced and won a contest.

* Figment (the Disney character) and Cure Answer got into a fight and failed to make up.

* I made Special Week and Cure Mystic friends by talking about the Twinkle Series, the race in Uma Musume.

* Princess Silver from Yume no Crayon Oukoku and Princess Ripple from Princession Orchestra became friends and talked about baking, which Minamo, Princess Ripple's civillian form, loves.

* Glinda from Wicked fell in love with Kermit the Frog.

* A conversation between Khalil from VeggieTales, Acorn from Crispy In No Place Like Home and Kana Arima from Oshi no Ko took place, in which Khalil said Acorn lent him a manga.

* A 50 problems breaking news occured where the band thanking me was Kana Arima, Kaiketsu Zorori, Princess Ripple and Haru Urara.

I then watched the recent Lulutto Lilly, which was interesting. I liked how realistic the idol agency was, was shocked at the reveal that Rui was a sick child when she was younger, and found the fact that Rui elaborately prepared to use magic for the first time funny.

Then, I watched the new Muppet Show special. The beginning made me a little emotional as it showed the old theater and photos of previous guest stars. There were also many good jokes, like the first Fozzie scene, the blue grumpy puppet getting angry at Maya Rudolph, a joke by Bunsen about how electronics cause us to lose our attention span and the "copyright infringement" joke. Funny enough, the beverage cart came during the scene in "Pigs in Wigs" where Miss Piggy asked someone to get her a beverage. I also liked how there was a scene where the characters talked to Sabrina Carpenter. The music was also great, especially the one between Miss Piggy and Sabrina Carpenter and the Don't Stop Me Now finale.

After this, I didn't feel like watching any more things, so I decided to watch TikTok. The following things appeared:

* The Sesame Street song "Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco"

* Miniverse's stand at Coachella

* Someone dressing up as Roger Rabbit at Disneyland...only to find out the ride was closed for refurbishment.

* Someone's story of buying the Tear Arcana Rod from Star Detective Pretty Cure

* A Tomodachi Life cutscene where another character catches you with the character who is your crush, leading to the "I got into a fight" moment.

* Someone's Pretty Cure toy collection

* A video about Mitsuwa Edgewater (I actually plan to go to a Japanese grocery store in Little Tokyo to find Star Detective Pretty Cure merchandise, probably after I get some Kaiketsu Zorori books at Kinokuniya)

* Someone's DVD haul, which included Mirror Mirror, The Lion King and ELF

* A video of Sanrio Puroland

* A new Miss Piggy bag being sold at the Disney Parks

* The Tourbillion cake scene from Motto! Ojamajo Doremi

* A Tomodachi Life video where Elphaba and Glinda fought

* A Sanrio-themed KFC

* The official Bandai Gashapon song

* Someone's Cure Answer cosplay

* A video of the Crispy Critters ad "Mothers Panel", which is basically Crispy promoting the cereal to moms (does this mean he also talks to adult humans and not just kids?)

* Someone making Ouran High School in Tomodachi Life

* A video of the Saja Boys meal at McDonald's

* A new Kermit Disney Wishable being announced

* A video of Sailor Moon Shining Theater Tokyo

* A video of the Artemis landing

Then I went on a certain social media site organized in groups, where the following happened:

* In a Nickelodeon-themed group, I learned it was the Jimmy Neutron show's 24th anniversary yesterday, it was revealed that if Queen Elizabeth II hadn't died, she would be 100 today, David Cross revealed the Alvin and the Chipmunks staff did bad things, it was revealed that the Regular Show marathon on Cartoon Network will last until the premiere of The Lost Tapes, a Doug marathon was planned for Pluto TV's 90s Kids channel and there was a funny picture of Sheen from Planet Sheen looking at a TV-Y7 screenbug.

* In a Tomodachi Life group, someone's Kris had a crush on his friend Wario, someone's house was called Girlboss Feminism despite having a man in it, someone made a Mini Wii, someone made the characters from Backrooms and someone made Doraemon.

* In a VeggieTales group, someone addressed the Big Idea Wiki members to not get into the personal business of people who worked on VeggieTales, a person who ran Big Idea Wiki was revealed to be a very problematic person and someone got the 15th anniversary DVD of "Where's God When I'm S-S-Scared?" for $5.

* In a My Little Pony group, the pony of the day was a G3 pony named Sunrise, and someone got a Venezuelan version of Cherries Jubilee.

After this, I went back on Tomodachi Life, where the following happened:

* Kana and Acorn told Khalil they loved his smile, with Acorn presenting a TV playing Creamy Mami to him.

* Nelly from Kaiketsu Zorori wanted to live with Crispy, and they both said going to the arcade as an activity.

* Figment broke up with Cure Answer.

* Nelly talked with Crispy about how a Bukkura Koita (from Kaiketsu Zorori) is good for going on a road trip, then Nelly actually took it out.

* Zorori talked to Wakko Warner about Najou.

* I made Creamy Mami, Nobita Nobi from Doraemon and Jett-senpai from Star Detective Pretty Cure.

* Teto talked to Mashululu about love, and she compared it to picturing Riley Anderson from Inside Out's face, despite me not making her romantically attracted to girls.

* Jonah from VeggieTales pretended to confess his love to Captain Zelza from The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. He then fell in love with Haru Urara from Uma Musume.

* Khalil and Kasane Teto became friends and talked about Persian rugs, doing the small one vs big one conversation.

* I gave my self-insert Hoshiko a Kyoto trip, and she bought Crispy along.

* Nelly and Crispy did the channel change cutscene.

Because the wifi wasn't working by the time I tried to pull up Project Sekai, I played a Love Live puzzle game for a bit. Then, I tried playing the iPad Taiko no Tatsujin, only for me to not be able to hear the song due to loud engine noises. Then, I tried to use the bathroom, but my shy bladder kicked in and I couldn't go. By the time I came back, I just decided to listen to music on YouTube. At one point, I tried playing a game called Twinkle Twins, but it was a difficult matching game.

I then decided to go on another social media site, and saw the following:

* A promo for a collection of Simon's Cat merchandise called The ABC's of Simon Cat.

* Posts on an retired foods blog about a Ronald McDonald cookie and a British cereal called Banana Bubbles that turned milk banana-flavorted.

* A post about how expensive tomatoes have become.

* A new image from NASA of the planet Jupiter.

* Tons of Cure Mystic birthday fanart

* A person talking about how he liked that the characters on The Super Mario Bros Super Show's live-action segments were adults.

* A post about someone wanting the Toys R Us Jewel Cure Watch set.

* Lego having a Star Wars giveaway

I then turned on Tomodachi Life a third time, where the following happened:

* Zorori showed Nelly the Bukkura Koita.

* Dewey the Donkey from Crispy Critters cereal froze in fright because he imagined meeting Crispy (his bandmate) in a dark alley.

* Nelly was cooking for Crispy.

* Cure Answer told Nobita Nobi that a PreKit Mirror Loupe would help Huntrix shine.

* Kana Arima said she wanted to meet Hatsune Miku.

* Hoshiko said she heard on the news miso soup makes people shrink. Then, Cure Idol mentioned her Creamy Mami collection.

Because there was only an hour and fifteen minutes to go, I continued to listen to music on YouTube, mostly idol anime songs. With 45 minutes left, I went on the group social media again, and the following was discussed:

* A friend's group talked about Jimmy Neutron and Coyote Vs. ACME.

* The Nickelodeon group also discussed Coyote vs. ACME, the Alvin and the Chipmunks thing discussed earlier, how a Jennifer Aniston movie showed Bob the Builder in one scene, a list of episodes of Blue's Clues featuring Joe that were released on DVD and VHS was shown, someone discussed how various kids' networks rebranded when TV aspect ratios changed and someone's memories of Bravo were discussed.

* A group for MeTV Toons talked about the potential for other Rankin Bass specials to air on MeTV Toons (as they aired The Easter Bunny Is Comin' To Town), it was mentioned that the MeTV Toons website was down, someone shared a podcast about Nickelodeon's game show Brainsurge, someone showed their recordings of The Super Mario Brothers Super Show! from MeTV Toons, a group of fans thought today's Mario episode contained a memetic scene in it when it did not (my guess was the scene where Luigi burns a record in the fireplace) and someone showed the French theme song to Histeria!

* A PBS archive group showed the trailer for the Wishbone documentary, which also mentioned the date it would be on video on demand: June 10, 2026, three days after my 28th birthday and a short show called America's Awesome Kids was announced.

Before we knew it, the plane landed at the airport as the first chorus to La Lu Sugarin' from Lulutto Lilly ended. It was funny because one of the lyrics in the part that follows is "Runway". Then, I saw a JAL plane, and I wanted to see what songs they had on their in-flight entertainment, since sometimes they have covers of songs from NHK kids' shows. Lo and behold, on their website, the Yuuna-chan era toilet-training song of Inai Inai Baa! was on that album, so I had the idea to listen to it via YouTube. As it ended, we reached the gate.

We then took the bus to get a rent a car and we had a very energetic lady on the bus whom people tipped before we left and talked throughout the ride. Then, we took a Honda Oddessy as our rent-a-car.

What will happen at Disneyland? Stay tuned to find out!

[milkthecouch]

I woke up to good news and bad news today. The good news was that the Project Sekai movie was getting a US physical release. The bad news was that the old app version of Habbo, which I use to talk to fictional characters via the bot item (the new app doesn't let you turn them on to talk), was going to shut down.

When we left, we were in an elevator with a dad and his daughter, with the dad doing a Mickey impression. It was good, but didn't beat Brian Hull.

Then, we went to the airport. I saw lots of people with plushies and bag charms. We also looked in the gift shops for the theme parks. While the Disney one was lacking in good selection, the Universal ones were pretty cool. Then, we ate at Bahama Breeze for breakfast, where I ate breakfast empanadas, which reminded me of the limited time ones offered at Dunkin Donuts a few years back. I also saw a girl there watching Elmo's World, which reminded me of the ad with Elmo for SeaWorld that the monitors of the airport played. The TVs in the restaurant also played the Today show, which had a Valentine's Day gifts showcase and talked about the Olympics.

At our gate, we saw the aunt who was related to the person who was getting married's brother, and I mentioned how I heard his great-nephew went to Disney World to him. We then walked around a terminal, and a TV in one of the restaurants was showing MeTV Toons, much to my surprise, as not many cable providers get it (my cable provider lacks it, which stinks because I'd love to watch Histeria!, Freakazoid! and Linus the Lionhearted on there) We also saw cheerleaders from my home town, and we tried to get their attention, only for them to blankly stare at us. We also looked at the main gift shop, and they had things like Elphaba from Wicked plushies, a pilot doll, metal character lunch boxes and...animal poop-themed candies?

Back at the gate, I noticed one of the pilots had a fake Sesame Bean Labubu on their pants, and some of the cheerleader girls had ribbons themed after franchises like Bluey, Hello Kitty, SpongeBob SquarePants and Mean Girls. And because lots of passengers carried plushies, I decided to hold my baby Figment plush. One of the kids boarding also had a figurine of the baby doll-headed spider from the first Toy Story, which reminded me of a social media post where someone found the original toy of that character at a collector's store in the original packaging. I also saw shirts of things like the band Three Doors Down, the song Killing In The Name, lots of Disney Fab 5 shirts, Tom and Jerry, one featuring Cinderella Castle and the Disney Partners statue, and even a Five Below employee shirt! I also saw a girl who had an iPad and was looking at her photo gallery.

On the plane, I saw a kid watching Monsters, Inc. (fun fact: that was my first movie watched in a theater) and a woman my age with merchandise of cute characters like Hello Kitty and BT21 watching the Bluey episode Magic Xylophone. I also heard a little girl crying because she wanted to watch PAW Patrol.

I spent a good portion of the flight playing Hatsune Miku Colorful Stage, aka Project Sekai. I got a full combo on two out of nine rounds. I spent the rest of the flight listening to music I downloaded on YouTube while looking at one of my social media platforms, where I saw some interesting things:

* An old Superman poster about how discrimination is un-American

* A Star Detective Pretty Cure meme where the villian with green hair said that helping people is dumb

* Someone watching the Super Bowl on a plane

* Lots of animal pictures

* A post that caused me to learn that Mel Brooks is close to turning 100.

* A post with someone's SkullPanda POPNOW haul.

* A Peanuts strip with Lucy as a cheerleader

* Someone who posted the Dancing Star Pretty Cure scene from You and Idol Pretty Cure, saying it was cool

* A controversy about a new policy on another social media platform. One person jokingly suggested using Pictochat instead.

* Someone's custom Labubu

* Lots of Pokémon fanart

* A picture of a Japanese He-Man toy of Skeletor

* Someone's custom Neopets buttons

* A post about cookies made to promote Disney's movie Dinosaur

* Many images of flowers

* A My Little Pony parody of Loss

* A Disney poster for next year's Super Bowl, which included...Peter Griffin?

* A "Post a character that begins with this letter!" challenge with the letter W. I chose Waldo the Rhino from the 1987 incarnation of Crispy Critters cereal.

And then I just waited until we landed and listened to anime songs, mainly from Toei Animation shows. We landed at the last chorus of "Kimi to Sing A Ribbon" from You and Idol Pretty Cure.

And that does it for this trip. See you next trip!

[milkthecouch]

My day began with my sister poking me to wake up. After my shower, we went to wait for the bus to Animal Kingdom, only to find it was already there, so we boarded it. We then waited in line for the park to open. In front of us was a family with a young girl and boy. The boy left the line with the mom after he cried about needing to go to the bathroom. Behind us were some adults, including one with an Orange Bird keychain.

We did Flight of Passage first, and I enjoyed it, but it made my stomach cramp. Turns out later that I needed to poop. After this was the Zootopia show, which I enjoyed, but I noticed some out of place effects that may have been left over from It's Tough To Be A Bug!, like the bad smell and the seats bumping. On our way to the Zootopia show, we saw a parrot show where the host recommended not to get one as a pet.

After this, I waited for my sister to come from Expedition Everest, so I just people watched after using the bathroom. I overheard a teen boy say that Everest was the scariest ride at Disney, saw a little girl as Tinker Bell who asked her mom to see Mickey and Minnie, heard a mom tell her son she will see lions, tigers and bears on the safari a la Wizard of Oz, saw a cheerleader group where one girl had a Kermit the Frog plush on her bag, a brother and sister had differing opinions on the yeti scene in Expedition Everest, but the sister said it wasn't as scary as Tower of Terror, heard a little girl chanting "I want cookies!" and a boy said "Even John Cena would be scared of that mountain!". Also, a woman noticed my Muppets shirt and asked if I saw the new Muppet Show. I said no, and she recommended it because it was fun.

Then, we did Kali River Rapids...and we were the only ones riding. There was literally no one in the queue or on the rafts. It was a little bumpy, and I didn't get that wet.

After stopping in one of the gift shops, we left to go on the bus to EPCOT. This is when me and my sister split up. After finding that the Test Track single rider line was too long, I did Journey Into Imagination With Figment. The line was a little longer than usual, but I saw a Make A Wish family in line and this girl got excited whenever Figment came on screen in the queue and her mom was quizzing her on the ride, with questions like "What's the scientist's name?" and "Which lab are we taken to first?", making it obvious she rode this before. The dad of a boy passing by said "You gave me a flat tire!", a teen did the Six Seven hand motions, a girl sang APT's chorus, a boy said that today was better than going to Chuck E. Cheese, a man lamented the loss of the original version and described to his wife what it was like, someone told someone to not bring up "that version" of the Imagination ride, the man who missed the old ride looked up places to eat on his phone and his wife said she didn't like barbeque, a girl refused to put on her jacket and her mom explained the ride's plot to her so she'd know what to expect, and also described ImageWorks, the girl who was quizzed sang "Figment! Figment! I can't wait for Figment!", and a woman looked at her Cosmic Rewind Fastpass. When I finally got on, a dad asked if one of his kids remembered being scared of the ride as a baby, when Figment asked if he could come, someone asked if the ride would be scary, some kids laughed at "Tastes like chicken!", a woman acted scared of the ride, a woman said "I hear a phooone!" when we hear a phone ring, when Nigel discussed the sight lab, a woman said "Bring on the mischief!", someone clapped to the Sight Lab rendition of One Little Spark, when Nigel asked "Figment? Figment?", a woman asked "Where is he? Where did he go?", someone recited the "Let the good times roll!" dialouge, a woman said "Oh shit!" at the skunk, then commented that it wasn't the worst part of the ride, and that something at the end was, someone pointed out the upside down crayons, a kid liked Figment's kitchen, during the "We all have sparks - imaginations!" part of One Little Spark, someone waved the light up paintbrush that came with the Figment bucket in the pink color, everyone screamed at the blast of air, a woman said "I see what you mean!" at the Nigel Channing moon, causing another woman to comment "Oh my god, that moon is creepy!", and everyone clapped at the end of the ride.

After this, I decided to look in the Japan pavillion for snacks. I pick up a box of Pie no Mi and I spot it - my favorite chocolate bar, Black Thunder! I got two bags of that, two boxes of sour cream and onion Pretz and two Pokémon wafers. The cashier noticed my background on my phone (Nelly from Kaiketsu Zorori) and she said she liked Kaiketsu Zorori as a kid. Then, I headed to eat at Regal Eagle, which had better food than Roundup Rodeo BBQ except for the smores pop I had-it wasn't flavorful. A cast member noticed my shirt and told me it was a Muppets restaurant, which I knew from online reviews. Following this, I got gashapons from the Hamtaro and Mikko Illustrations collections. From the former, I got Oxnard, and I got Cammy from the second one.

Then, we took the Skyliner to the Rivera Resort, where we saw Italian Disney movie posters, a TV playing The Aristocats, and Chip or Dale meeting guests by the pool. But we then got lost and had to walk to the Carribean Beach resort to get to Disney Springs, where I bought T-shirts and a Figment mug in World of Disney.

Dinner was at Chef Mickey's, where all the characters came to our table in 15 minutes and the interactions were cute. The food selection wasn't that impressive to me, as it was limited.

Then, we headed to Magic Kingdom to go on Tiana's Bayou Adventure. I was with some young girls and their parents. The girls sang to every song and during the drop where you become tiny, one girl compared her sister's reaction to Bingo being scared in an episode of Bluey (maybe it was a reference to Bingo covering her eyes in Movies?). The ride was much better and more beautiful at night!

Then, I waited near a gift shop for Haunted Mansion while I ate roasted pecans, which made me sick. I saw a girl in a dark lolita outfit, two different groups that referenced the 6 7 meme, some girls and their dad looking around the shop, a man sitting on a bench watching the Super Bowl, two twins dressed as Aurora, a group of cheerleaders, two sisters wearing the same light up shoes, a cast member sweeping the path, siblings with rainbow light-up swords, a kid with the Figment popcorn bucket which the kid changed the brush colors of, a teen boy making a TikTok of his day at the park, two girls talking about Epic Universe, a teen girl telling her friends to close their eyes and she then showed a mini plush Stitch, which the friends clapped at, a toddler girl in Rumi's yellow jacket from K-Pop Demon Hunters, a teen girl who said "Wooo!" after leaning Haunted Mansion was 25 minutes from a friend, a toddler being told the Haunted Mansion was too scary for him, a young boy who said "They lied! That wasn't a scary ride!" about the Haunted Mansion, a boy running with a Super Why plush, a teen girl who said "Fuck Tiana, this ride sounds cooler!" about The Haunted Mansion, a mob of teen boys and girls singing Katy Perry's "Firework" on their way to The Haunted Mansion, a girl in an Elsa dress trying to stop the bubbles coming out of her brother's bubble wand with her princess wand, a woman who said "She likes Figment? That was the worst ride at EPCOT!" about my backpack, sisters dressed as Aurora and Elsa, a man with an "I Was That Guy" sticker from Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor and a girl with a plush of Joy from Inside Out.

After this, we decided to leave to watch the fireworks at our hotel. But because a movie (The Princess and the Frog) was playing outdoors, we decided to watch it on the balcony of our hotel. To my surprise, Dad was watching the Super Bowl. When the show began, we heard a girl scream and say "Yes! Yes!". The kids outside were very excited to see the show and were chattering throughout.

Tommorow, we go back home.

[milkthecouch]

Like yesterday, I woke up in the middle of the night at 3 to Mom yelling at my sister for being awake, accompanied by an elevator opening (our room is right next to the elevators). I tried to go back to sleep, and woke up at 5 while everyone else slept, so I checked social media, where I learned that not only did The Muppet Show reboot pilot gain three million viewers when aired on TV, it beat Bluey as the most-watched show on Disney+. Maybe with all this positive reception and success, I should watch it sometime. I also learned there was a controversy of Mariah Carey lipsyncing at an event in Milano, saw tons of Cure Arcana Shadow from Star Detective Pretty Cure fanart, learned that Tokyo Station's Pretty Cure Pretty Store...is a Pokéstop and saw one of my favorite YouTubers talk about his local cinema closing, leading me to mention a local cinema that was part of the same chain closing (the one in the same mall as the local Round One).

After showering, we headed for the bus, and arrived just in time for a bus to our destination to be waiting for us! While waiting in line to enter the park, we saw a girl with a Hatsune Miku "big mouth" ita-bag with Project Sekai buttons inside, which seems to be a popular style of ita-bag. And I had a scare in line for the ticket scan: my wallet opened up and all my cards were gone except my health insurance one! Luckily, they just spilled in my bag. I took this as a sign to get a new wallet. At 7:30AM, everyone began to cheer.

My sister convinced me to go on Slinky Dog Dash, and I sang Unison of Smiles from You and Idol Pretty Cure out loud so I wasn't scared! The ride was pretty cool and was the best ride I did on the trip. It was so crazy! Next, we did Smuggler's Run, and me and my sister got to be pilots...and we failed big time!

Then, my sister wanted to do thrill rides, so I waited in Walt Disney and Co. while she did them, intending to look for a wallet after the big mishap, only for it to lack wallets. After that, I looked in The Darkroom, and there was nothing there either. Next was Beverly Sunset, which also had no wallets, but they did have an Inside Out display. Next stop was the Majestic Theater, which was just clothing. Meanwhile, at Sunset Club Couture, nothing was there I asked a shopkeeper...and she suggested a store that didn't have wallets. The closest thing I found was a coin case of Scar from The Lion King. I then walked around the Tower of Terror area. After she went on Tower of Terror, I just sat on a bench while she did Rock N Roller Coaster. I saw some interesting people pass by: a girl with a princess wand who danced to the background music, a woman with grey and cream-colored Exciting Macaron Labubus on her bag, another woman with a plush keychain of one of the birds from Pixar's For The Birds on her purse and a family with matching shirts that all said "I'm here for the magic" and had Mickey ears. In the queue itself (from what I could see), someone wore the Figment sweater currently on sale at ImageWorks, a man wore a shirt with a Stitch parody of the Eras Tour poster art, another dad had a shirt of Bandit from Bluey that said "Dad" on it, someone with a headband of Mickey Mouse's glove hands and a teen boy with a SpongeBob face shirt (wrong park, dude!). This female cast member stopped me while I was on a bench, noticed my LinaBell purse and asked "Is that LinaBell? I love her!" and I said it was and she wondered where I got it.

After this, we did Rise of the Resistance, where me and my sister did single rider and split apart. Every time a group was called and they had 6 or 7 people, someone would say "Six seven!" like that meme. I wound up with this family who had a young girl who wasn't older than five and a preteen boy. I sat next to this nice man who helped me buckle my seatbelt. When droids were shown, the girl thought they were cute. When the big drop happened in the ride, the girl began crying loudly, but at the end of the ride, she said that it was good, but a little scary.

The final ride we did at Hollywood Studios was Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. In the queue, we saw something interesting - a toddler with Anpanman shoes. We were seated behind another toddler and his family, and the parents took selfies at the beginning of the ride and in the Daisy's Dance Studio room.

Next, we took the Skyliner to EPCOT. Because my sister found the wait for the Guardians Of The Galaxy ride too long, she wound up eating a snack. While that happened, I went to Japan and got two pouches to use as wallets: one shaped like a shiba inu and the other that had an image of Shibuya with a shiba inu on it that had the text "SHIBUYA" on it. I also wanted to do the gashapon, but the line was way too long for me to wait in. My sister then announced she was not waiting, so I took a walk to where she was, and she got me some milk.

After this, we took the monorail back to our resort, where mom and dad were preparing for the wedding they were going to, and dad turned on BET. We then decided to head on the bus to Hollywood Studios, and dad and mom showed up to say goodbye to us! We also got a Figment bus, which made me really happy.

At Hollywood Studios, I had a few snacks before dinner, including blue milk, Babybel cheese and a chocolate-covered strawberry Lunch Box Tart, all of which tasted good.

We then went to Roundup Rodeo BBQ, where we sat next to a family who got one of those Star Wars pets while waiting, and a woman with a green Exciting Macaron Labubu was on our left. We also saw two different people with the Figment Crocs, which I find creepy. When we entered and sat down, the "Andy's coming!" audio played...and it was a new recording, meaning they didn't just update the menu to remove signs, they updated the audio, too! It also played before we got our desserts. Anyway, the food wasn't as good as I remembered, and most of it was salty.

After this, we decided to head back to the hotel on the bus. Across from us was a newborn baby who was crying to be breastfed, and a nice woman helped out the mom by hiding her body with a pink fabric cloth.

I tried to sleep when arriving at the hotel...only to be awoken by the Water Pagent, so me and my sister watched the recent Star Detective Pretty Cure.

And that's it for the day. Tomorrow is our last day.

[hothotmiso]

[milkthecouch]

I had a little bit of a rough night's sleep, waking up every other hour. One time I woke up to a man talking to someone on the phone. I eventually woke up for real around 5:15AM needing to use the bathroom, which I did.

After a few hours of waiting, our dad drove us to EPCOT for breakfast at Akershus. There was a dad there who hadn't been to EPCOT since the early 90's and talked about when the restaurant was a buffet. We were also the oldest people there without kids. The family behind us also ordered from the vegan menu, which I heard from an online review had good sausage.

After that, we went on Journey Into Imagination with Figment. In the queue, a boy asked "Is this a ride, Dad?". On the actual ride, a woman went on Instagram for the entire duration. At the end of the ride, a boy yelled "That was so dumb!". In ImageWorks, I got the baby Figment, which my sister pointed out in the shop. I also got Figment ears. But the one thing they were missing was a shirt I saw on another site, which they luckily had in Creations Shop.

Following this was the new Test Track. Me and my sister did single rider, and just like what happens sometimes on Millenium Falcon, we were on the same vehicle, but in different rows. It was cute with the concept of a talking car, but due to the weather, I felt really cold during the fast part at the end.

Then, we did something I've been waiting for: getting the Figment popcorn bucket. Six people were in front of me to pick up their order. I got the display Figment bucket, and carrying it felt like carrying a baby. Also, the place where it was sold played music as part of the loop, including three renditions of One Little Spark, one of which was a cute marching band version. I also had the Figment roll cake and it was fruity! I kept on getting compliments from guests of all ages because of my popcorn bucket.

Then, we went to Mitsukoshi. I was hoping to find Black Thunder there, but not only did they not have that, they had all the Pretz flavors...except for pizza (my favorite flavor). They did have a Nezuko plush and some Sanrio plushies for sale, and a gashapon machine outside where you could use a touchscreen to pick your choice of toy. I had a similar dream about a gashapon machine that did the same thing, and I got a Cure Zukyoon from You and Idol Pretty Cure figurine from it. The only interesting gashapons they had were Mikko Illustrations hairclips and Hamtaro keychains, but I didn't buy any of them.

After this was Soarin'. The Lightning Lane was crowded because The Seas With Nemo and Friends broke down and that was one of the choices for the complimentary Lightning Lane. This was when I got tired and cranky due to overstimulation, so I decided to leave after that ride. But before that, I was worried about where I was going to put my Figment bucket until a nice family offered to put it next to their son's backpack when it didn't fit underneath the seat.

Because of the overstimulation (likely caused by me having to carry a large popcorn bucket around), we had to return back to our hotel to eat. We also cancelled our dining at EPCOT to eat at Ragalan Road, which is often cited as one of Disney Springs' best restaurants, due to the overstimulation incident, and decided to head to Disney Springs itself after lunch, as my sister was looking for merchandise of the upcoming movie Hoppers. While waiting for the bus, I overheard a mom sing the "Get On The Bus" song from The Doodlebops to her kids, and wondered how she would know that...only to Google where the show was streaming and learn that the show is on Tubi, similar to many other Canadian 2000's kids shows.

We looked in Uniqlo and World of Disney together, as well as T-Rex Cafe and Rainforest Cafe. We then stumbled upon a LONG line for Gideon's Bakeshop when going to our reservation. The line being for a gourmet cookie shop reminded me of this video where someone mocked a similar line for Crumbl Cookies by playing a parody of the Backpack song from Dora the Explorer while passing by the line, causing the people to stare.

Then it was time for Ragalan Road. I wasn't expecting the restaurant to have live entertainment. A dancing show was going on when we entered. I had a delicious Scotch Egg that was better than the one I had in the UK, and bangers and mash containing the best sausage I've ever had.

We then decided to go back to the resort, and we suddenly got a call from our favorite aunt, who was at a bar with my parents and several of our aunts and uncles. They thought we were in EPCOT at first. Then, we rode the bus to our resort. Since it stopped at the Polynesian first, I checked there for Olu Mel merch instead of waiting for the stop at our hotel. However, the merch was limited and overpriced ($40 for a t-shirt?). My sister and I then took the monorail, and I left at the resort because I was tired while my sister went to the Magic Kingdom.

Tommorrow, we spend the day at Hollywood Studios.

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It's time for another trip blog! This time, the name comes from a suggestion @ashleypurepearl made, based on an old annual Toon Disney event that would happen on the day of the Super Bowl, as this trip occured around the Super Bowl.

The morning started when I woke up at 3:55AM. After looking through TikTok, which was mostly Disney videos, I took a shower and then waited for our ride to the airport. On the ride there, my playlist mostly played Disney Princess songs and songs from Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. I constantly kept seeing school buses on the parkway, and we made a pit stop to get gas, where I saw an ad that you can get a discount on that station's gas if you had Amazon Prime. I also felt very sick throught the drive, and nearly vomited when the car pulled out of the gas station.

I saw a lot of things at the airport, like a mom who showed her daughters a video she filmed of them arriving at the airport, a woman with a suitcase I was planning to buy (before I got one from Kohl's) with hearts all over it, a woman who had a green Exciting Macaron Labubu and the Loyalty Big Into Energy Labubu (I have two official ones of the latter), a suitcase with a Kirby on a star keychain, another suitcase I considered buying with pink and blue gradient as the pattern and a woman in a My Melody shirt.

Our flight gate was in the same area as our Rome flight from 2023. The family across from me at my gate was clearly going to Disney, as they had a Mickey ears bag, a Disney snacks bag, and the mom wore a custom Disney shirt. While waiting to board, one of the girls in the family had Lunchables as her breakfast, and another person got the family animal crackers, reminding me of Crispy Critters cereal (of course I bought my Crispy plush with me by coincidence on this trip). It was implied by them talking about the Guardians of the Galaxy ride that they were going to EPCOT first, which I love because it's the park with my childhood favorite character, Figment! I plan on getting this cute Baby Figment plush I saw there. They also talked about the Tanger Outlet center near me! The boy in the family also trolled his mom by eating the pieces of a donut she wanted, which was pretty funny. There was also a Little Mermaid-themed cheer group.

When I took my jacket off, I realized I accidentally bought another plushie that was left in my pocket from taking it to work-Mimomo from the Funtane! segments on Okaasan to Issho.

I looked around the gift shops, too, and saw things like Mr. Beast jerky, Dubai chocolate that was half-off, a stack of Dav Pilkey books and many Bluey and Miss Rachel books.

When we boarded the plane, I learned that there were new YouTube Music playlists on the flight. Compared to the old Spotify playlists, there were more songs I knew. But the movie selection was very poor. Thank goodness for my iPad, but we'll get to that later. There was a kid behind me who was very chatty until he asked his parents for his iPad. We took off just as the fast part started in Tina Turner's cover of Proud Mary, but then once again I felt sick and had a headache. So that meant I couldn't watch anything with subtitles (which was pretty much everything I had downloaded). After playing two photo sessions on Idol Land PriPara, I decided to listen to the in-flight music while coloring in one of my You and Idol Pretty Cure coloring books.

Then I went on TikTok and saw the following videos:

• The Double E song from Between the Lions

• A TDR Explorer video about needing a fitness test to enter a certain area in Kanto PokePark

• An NYC to Disney daytrip where someone's Spirit flight got delayed three hours due to a matinence issue and they went to Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and EPCOT

• A video of a family with two boys' trip to the Florida Mall, where they met up with a girl who had the Build A Bear Usahana and went to Primark

• A spoiler from The Muppet Show reboot pilot about a certain song sung in the show

• A review of a Disney-themed thrift store called Recycling The Magic

• A Five Below Valentine's Day product roundup

• A clip from a Sesame Street Christmas special

• A video about Shanghai Disneyland surprises when you stay at the hotel (one was that you get a Duffy and Friends card!)

• A Miniso Black Friday haul of mostly generic stuff where the person doing the video owned the same Juicy Couture mini purse I did

• A cosplayer of Cure Idol doing a dance cover of Unison of Smiles' chorus

• A video of Duffy merch at Tokyo DisneySea

• A video of a frozen entryway to The Sea With Nemo and Friends

• Japanese idols dancing to Naze? Nazo?! ANSWER from Star Detective Pretty Cure

• A slideshow of free activities in Orlando

• A video of Bing Bong closing someone's work laptop at Pixar Place

• A review of Six Flags Great Escape

After this, I just listened to music and went my other social media, where the following happened:

• In a PBS Kids group I'm in, they were discussing people in another site's PBS Kids group being mad that Adventures from the Book Of Virtues did not come on PBS Retro like they expected last year (fun fact: someone else in the same group spread a false rumor that The Noddy Shop would air on there). They also discussed the show Being Ian and showed a clip of Elmo from Sesame Street on TMZ.

• A Nickelodeon group was discussing a rage game based on that old Chef Boyardee commercial with the rolling can, George getting a hearing aid in Peppa Pig and if the new Muppet Show would be greenlit for a series.

• A friend group showed a Rosalina-themed controller for the Mario Galaxy movie.

• Someone in a VeggieTales group discussed Weird Al's connection with VeggieTales (a kid drew him as the characters).

After doing this, my stomach began to hurt while I just decided to listen to music. This escalated into me vomiting when we hit rough turbulence. Thankfully, Mom had a bag and I had napkins, but people still laughed at me for doing that. We landed as I hit the "Hold on, hold on, I'm on my way!" in APT and everyone clapped. But the bad thing is while I had to wait, I had to hear someone's dinosaur toy make roaring noises, which reminded me of a time when I was at the allergist and someone bought in an annoying wolf toy.

After a little rent-a-car mishap, we headed to the Magic Kingdom! The first ride we did was Tiana's Bayou Adventure, which had a five minute wait. We also sat in the front row! To me, it was darker inside lighting-wise than California's version. I also got shushed by the people behind me for talking too much. During the big drop, my hair and glasses got wet. The next ride was It's A Small World, which had the new verse played in two scenes. The guy behind us somehow knew the words to said verse when it played for the last time, so me and my sister joined him in singing it (he sang it at least twice). The person at the front of the boat in front of us also waved goodbye to us at the end of the ride! The guy who sang also noticed the clock was broken and stuck on 10 or 11 o clock. We then stopped to eat turkey legs, and a cast member asked us "Is this the best day ever, eating a turkey leg?" and we said "Yeah!". Then we went on Dumbo, where in the queue, we saw two Figment backpacks: mine, and a second backpack that's newer. On the ride, my Bing Bong ears nearly fell off due to the wind, so I took them off from that point forward.

Following this, we took the monorail back to our hotel, the Grand Floridian. We actually saw people from my hometown on the monorail, which was shocking! After failing to get into our hotel room due to a key problem, we went to dinner at 1900 Park Fare. I tried tostones because they looked interesting, and they were just like a potato chip, but with a little sweetness! The character interactions were mostly generic, except for Mirabel, who talked about our glasses and how me and my sister were siblings like hers. But the big surprise was that it cost nearly $200 for a buffet meal. I could've eaten Asian all you can eat hotpot and barbeque for cheaper!

We then returned to the park to do Pirates of the Carribean, which had two boats before us each have a kid who was scared of riding it. One kid screamed when the boat went into the start of the ride, while the other said "There's no turning back!" when the same thing happened. I sat in front of a man who explained to his kid what was happening in the ride. I also saw the Festival Of The Arts Figment bucket getting off the ride, and man it is big! How could I bring that back home? (I already sacrificed LinaBell coming so that I could get Figment merchandise, but there would still be no room!)

After this, I looked in Star Traders while my sister did thrill rides. They had a whole Stitch section with a cup based on the "good/bad level" scene, pretty but overpriced outfits, a whole wall of Mickey ears and even jewelry. As for people who visited, a group of tweens looked at the candy and laughed hysterically at the name of "Mixed Emotions Assorted Sour Balls", a girl was told she couldn't get candy, a teen girl said there was no Duffy merchandise when looking at the Mickey ears and another girl convinced her mom to get her a mini Stitch plush by saying "But it's a magnet, though...", I saw two toddlers dressed as Belle and Cinderella, a woman had an Aurora Nuimo attached to her outfit, a young boy did the floss dance in front of the Mickey ears, an older sister asked "Are you gonna cry if I eat it?" when she talked about the younger sister's Minnie marshmallow pop, someone had the Pop Mart Mickey Family Mickey bag charm, someone had the "old phone" iPhone ringtone, a girl cried because she wanted a Rapunzel shirt for her birthday and it didn't come in her size, a boy was decked out in Cars merchandise, a boy had a Buc-ee's jacket, a woman had a GIANT shaped bag of Figment's head, an woman attached a plush of Bingo from Bluey to her purse strap, a toddler had a Legoland Florida shirt, a boy said "Yeah! Whoop whoop whoop!", a woman had a 50's Prime Time Cafe "Official Member Clean Plate Club" sticker on her light blue Stanley and a woman talked about going to Pop Mart for Cry Baby merchandise.

Halfway through the wait, I went inside a giftshop near Tron and they had...Marvel merchandise? Many people in the store sat in a Tron-themed area to wait for people getting off Space Mountain.

After this, we planned to go to Disney Springs, but there was NO BUS from the Magic Kingdom that took you there, unless you wanted a Minnie Van. Since that was an extra cost, we decided to call it a day and head back to our hotel. But as we went back to our room following a quick trip for Mickey ice cream bars, we heard familiar music: turns out our hotel has a simulcast of Happily Ever After at their lake! But because it was cold and our ice cream would melt, we went back to our room.

Tomorrow is my most anticipated day of the trip: our EPCOT day! I really want to get as much Figment merchandise as possible!

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based on that one YTP I shared recently

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Since today was a travel day with nothing much happening, I'll just write a list of interesting things that happened:

• I saw a kid watching Hey Duggee on an iPad near the check-in. Funny, because both times that Bluey was on CBeebies when we turned it on, that was the show that followed it.

• I saw a family with two kids with Disney plushies like Stitch and Donald Duck with them, making it obvious they had been to Disneyland Paris.

• Another family had two kids with knock-off Tamagotchis (the Bunny ROM ones) on their bags.

• I ate nothing but cookies and chips for lunch, since there were no interesting options for lunch foods.

• A man and woman near me both used the in-seat charger to charge their headphones. Smart move!

• I played 11 rounds of Project Sekai, with three rounds being full combos.

• I watched the Kaiketsu Zorori La La La Star Tanjou movie and enjoyed it. I also watched the first hour or so of Only Yesterday, because I got bored after the part mostly comprised of young Taeko scenes when she arrives in the country.

• Then, I played more Project Sekai (that time, two were full combos) and played Idol Land PriPara.

• After that, I read social media while listening to the VeggieTales CD On The Road With Bob And Larry.

• I then colored in a Kimi to Idol Pretty Cure coloring book.

• I then watched Idolm@ster Million Live's first episode. Although the CGI animation put me off, I loved Mirai! Following this, I listened to music on YouTube for the rest of the flight.

And that's it for this vacation. Until the next one!

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I had a brilliant idea today: to go to the PopMart by our hotel and wait in line for it to open for a chance at getting another Hacipupu Gummy Bear, since I saw a display of them yesterday. And to my luck, they not only had them, but they also had some open boxed Labubus, one of which my sister got. As for me, the Hacipupu I got was the pineapple flavor one.

After this, we went to eat lunch in the same area as King Jouet, where I had a decent hot dog and fries. Then, we went back to the mall after this and just looked around Miniso before taking a break in my parents' hotel room before heading to Versailles. But on the way there, I started feeling nauseous and vomited in my hand in the car minutes before approaching a tunnel.

Versailles was a very interesting place! The palace was nice to tour through and reminded me of a similar mansion where I live, and the garden was a nice place to relax. After this, we had KFC for dinner because my sister wanted to try the Demon Slayer burger, which she found disappointing. We also ate crepes for dessert at another restaurant.

Tomorrow, we leave to go back to New York.