I had an amazing time at USJ (Universal Studios Japan). It was pretty expensive, but I think it was worth every Yenny! The gate fee was about 5500yen ($60) and then we paid extra to get express passes on the rides. The express pass was about 4000yen. I highly recommend it. Most of the rides had an estimated waiting time of about 50 minutes each; but with the express pass you get to jump the queues. It felt so good to walk past the long lines of waiting people and just hop onto the rides.

My favourite ride was the ET ride. You went around a few different scenes from the movie on a bike suspended from the air. You know that bit in ET when they fly over the city and past the moon? That was the highlight of my whole day at USJ. That and the Hollywood Rollercoaster and the Jurassic Park ride (which B and I went on twice). We also watched part of the Wicked musical. It was a bit strange in Half Japanese Half English.... and I must say from the scenes they chose to show that it looked like a big gay love affair between Glinda and Elphaba. The girl that was playing Elphaba had a really nice voice, but the Japanese Glinda made me want to tear my ears out. Some voices are just not suited to microphones and massive speakers! (demonstrated periodically by me at Karaoke).

What else has been going on in the Pan recently? I have become really really addicted to facebook. SHocking. I have become a bit of an internet stalker of friends from high school.... mwahah! It's so interesting to see what everyone has been up to. It seems that from my year at school everyone is really successful; traveling heaps and have really great jobs. So very very humbling! And boy have they reproduced...! I suppose we are actually adults. But when did that happen?

Last weekend B had a gig in Sannomiya again. The Nightfillers are getting so great to watch live. They have about 5 more gigs before we all go back to Perth. Unfortunately their drummer will be staying in Japan, so I don't know what's going to happen when we get back to Perth. They are currently trying to get a CD together- mixing it themselves which seems to be a long process as they never seem to be happy with the sound of the different mixes! It may have something to do with the amount of beer consumed during the mixing process. Rock stars! They are all the same!