Worldcon Dispatch #7
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annathepiperOriginally written 9/6/07 7:40am, 9:20ish am, transcribed 9/17/07 7:44pm
In which Anna misses the last day of the con and some of Cosmo World due to the Stupid Cold, but the Cosmo Clock and Namja Town are enjoyed by all!
The day after the Tokyo visit, the 3rd, wound up being the Anna Naps a Lot while![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat and solarbird Do Laundry Day. I seriously needed to rest, but it also meant that most of the day was boring.
Dara and Paul did go to the con's closing ceremonies, and after, they tell me, there was one last huge sticker trading frenzy. Which I missed. Sniff! This meant that they were late meeting me for lunch, too. But once they caught up with me, we had shabu-shabu!
Props to the nice young Japanese boy who knew English, and who saw me looking confused; when I told him I was looking for friends, he looked through the restaurant for me. Props also to the waitress, who pantomimed her way through showing us what to do to make the food.
The food itself was very tasty, kind of like fondue; we got a lot of little bits of pork and beef that we cooked by dipping into boiling sauce. And we dumped a bunch of random ingredients into the other side of the pot, to make soup. For dessert, more ice cream! Apparently, they like to use corn flakes for an ice cream base in Japan--and I conclude this is quite tasty.
Monday night went to Cosmo World, the small amusement park near to our hotel (the Navios Yokohama) and to World Porters, the mall. We all rode the Cosmo Clock, which was the huge Ferris wheel we saw coming in, and that was very cool. I really wanted to get on the roller coaster with Dara and Paul, but decided I'd better not risk it (stupid cold) and after we were done with that, Dara sent me back to the hotel since I was looking shaky.
So I missed the Spook House too, sniff. Dara and Paul had fun at that, and it got Dara well enough once that she shrieked and jumped back four feet. Hee. :)
Tuesday the 4th was the day of checking out of the Navios and taking the train to Tokyo, so that we could check in to a new hotel and meet up with our tour. I am sheepish to admit that the journey to Tokyo absolutely wiped me out; I was crying with exhaustion by the time we made it to the lobby of the Sunshine Prince hotel. So by Dara and Paul's wise counsel, I fell over in the room for a while, going through lunch, a bath, and a lengthy nap, in that order. Read a little once I woke up enough to get bored, finishing up another of the novels I'd brought from home and starting on one of the Japanese ones I'd bought the day before.
Then Dara and Paul came back, and we all ventured out in search of dinner. This time it was sushi, and while we had to eschew the sushi bar (stupid cold) we did have a pleasant dinner.
We picked me up some cold masks to wear, as well as another type of medicine to get the coughing and sneezing under control. I wound up with two different kinds of meds, with Dara's help; I have no earthly idea what's in either, but they seem to be doing a very good job. As of this writing, I am feeling much better. Let's hear it for mysterious Eastern medicine. :)
The highlight of Tuesday evening was venturing into Namja Town, an attraction Paul very much wanted to see and which was in the same complex as our hotel. Namja Town was very, very fun. Dara and I got stamps for our journals all over the place; we stopped in the ice cream area (huge with an astounding array of desserts) for yet more ice cream. The best fun was another spook house, which turned out to be a bit of a challenge, since it involved a word game none of us had a chance of solving since we didn't have enough Japanese to figure it out. We consigned poor Namja, I'm afraid, to a fiery roasting death at a demon's hands. Oops.
After that we retired at last to the room--bigger than the one at the Navios--to rest up to meet our tour on the morrow.
In which Anna misses the last day of the con and some of Cosmo World due to the Stupid Cold, but the Cosmo Clock and Namja Town are enjoyed by all!
The day after the Tokyo visit, the 3rd, wound up being the Anna Naps a Lot while
spazzkat and solarbird Do Laundry Day. I seriously needed to rest, but it also meant that most of the day was boring.Dara and Paul did go to the con's closing ceremonies, and after, they tell me, there was one last huge sticker trading frenzy. Which I missed. Sniff! This meant that they were late meeting me for lunch, too. But once they caught up with me, we had shabu-shabu!
Props to the nice young Japanese boy who knew English, and who saw me looking confused; when I told him I was looking for friends, he looked through the restaurant for me. Props also to the waitress, who pantomimed her way through showing us what to do to make the food.
The food itself was very tasty, kind of like fondue; we got a lot of little bits of pork and beef that we cooked by dipping into boiling sauce. And we dumped a bunch of random ingredients into the other side of the pot, to make soup. For dessert, more ice cream! Apparently, they like to use corn flakes for an ice cream base in Japan--and I conclude this is quite tasty.
Monday night went to Cosmo World, the small amusement park near to our hotel (the Navios Yokohama) and to World Porters, the mall. We all rode the Cosmo Clock, which was the huge Ferris wheel we saw coming in, and that was very cool. I really wanted to get on the roller coaster with Dara and Paul, but decided I'd better not risk it (stupid cold) and after we were done with that, Dara sent me back to the hotel since I was looking shaky.
So I missed the Spook House too, sniff. Dara and Paul had fun at that, and it got Dara well enough once that she shrieked and jumped back four feet. Hee. :)
Tuesday the 4th was the day of checking out of the Navios and taking the train to Tokyo, so that we could check in to a new hotel and meet up with our tour. I am sheepish to admit that the journey to Tokyo absolutely wiped me out; I was crying with exhaustion by the time we made it to the lobby of the Sunshine Prince hotel. So by Dara and Paul's wise counsel, I fell over in the room for a while, going through lunch, a bath, and a lengthy nap, in that order. Read a little once I woke up enough to get bored, finishing up another of the novels I'd brought from home and starting on one of the Japanese ones I'd bought the day before.
Then Dara and Paul came back, and we all ventured out in search of dinner. This time it was sushi, and while we had to eschew the sushi bar (stupid cold) we did have a pleasant dinner.
We picked me up some cold masks to wear, as well as another type of medicine to get the coughing and sneezing under control. I wound up with two different kinds of meds, with Dara's help; I have no earthly idea what's in either, but they seem to be doing a very good job. As of this writing, I am feeling much better. Let's hear it for mysterious Eastern medicine. :)
The highlight of Tuesday evening was venturing into Namja Town, an attraction Paul very much wanted to see and which was in the same complex as our hotel. Namja Town was very, very fun. Dara and I got stamps for our journals all over the place; we stopped in the ice cream area (huge with an astounding array of desserts) for yet more ice cream. The best fun was another spook house, which turned out to be a bit of a challenge, since it involved a word game none of us had a chance of solving since we didn't have enough Japanese to figure it out. We consigned poor Namja, I'm afraid, to a fiery roasting death at a demon's hands. Oops.
After that we retired at last to the room--bigger than the one at the Navios--to rest up to meet our tour on the morrow.
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Date: 2007-09-19 05:19 pm (UTC)And off-topic, we've watched eps 1-10 of DW Doctor 10 Season 2, and if the "good" two-parter you'd mentioned was the one with 1914, then you were right. And the one with the angel statues was AWESOME. And we finally got to see the return of Captain Jack, yay.
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Date: 2007-09-19 05:29 pm (UTC)The Navios was just a little farther past Cosmo World. If you were coming out of the con hotel and walking past Cosmo World, then you'd see World Porters, the mall, further ahead. The Navios was right across the street from World Porters.
Namja Town was a lot of fun, and right there in the same complex with the Sunshine Prince, where we met up with the tour. We only knew about it because Paul had been spending time at work before the con surfing around and looking up stuff. ;)
I saw your first post about the con go up, yeah! And I've got more posts of my own to do, I just haven't been able to since I jumped right back into full-blown work mode after we got back--and into writing in the evenings--so my time for transcribing my journal entries has been chancy. But I've definitely got more to come.
Woot, pictures of us! Let us know if you find 'em.
Meanwhile, YAY! for Doctor Who episodes! Wait, are you sure you're not talking about Series 3? Ninth Doctor had Series 1, and Ten's so far had Series 2 and 3... so that awesome two-parter, the weeping angels, and the return of Jack were all in Series 3. ;)
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Date: 2007-09-19 07:40 pm (UTC)Oh, and we were thrilled to realize that "Jessica Hynes" as credited in the two-parter with 1914 is the same as Daisy from "Spaced." (The show with Simon Pegg et al; she was credited as Jessica Stevenson on that show, and she was like Simon Pegg's co-writer and co-star.)
Looking forward to seeing more pics from Japan!
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Date: 2007-09-19 08:09 pm (UTC)Old school Who fans quite cheerfully number from the very beginning of the show, clear back to First Doctor, and therefore the most recent series with Ten is by their reckoning Series 29. Which is actually how I number when I post episode reviews! But the new school fans just count from the beginning of Ninth Doctor. Either, I think, are valid.
If you go look over on Dara's journal,