The events of the past week

Yes, I was at Anime Expo, as my last entry indicated. Even though I came back in the wee hours two days ago, I’ve still not had much of a chance to sit and rest. My brother decided to visit me this week, and he was at my house already when I got back (asleep on the couch). He had spent the evening with Leon, I later found out.

Yesterday, we went to the Jelly Belly factory tour (I got to see it when it was actually in production!) and then Marine World. I didn’t pace myself and got nauseous, so I got to playing with my cell phone while my brother rode the rides over and over — the lines were non-existent, so he kept going on everything twice. I saw the Stargate motion/show/Star Tours thing, which almost put me over the tipping point… the motion was a bit too jerky, and not quite in sync with the video (which was also too blurry.) We also saw Shouka, the new killer whale they’ve been advertising the heck out of around here. It’s a… killer whale like any other, I suppose. She’s pretty small, she must be young, and she didn’t have as many tricks learned as some of the ones I saw back in Sea World in my youth.

Today, we went to Great America, and I was able to pace myself a bit better, although it still involved playing with my cell phone while my brother rode on certain rides over and over. The lines today were a bit longer, but still only about five minutes at the longest. I spent a bit too much money on the fool’s task of winning a Gamecube at one of the carnival games, and showed off a bit at DDR to some kids. We left early, then went and saw Spiderman 2 and Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Mercado.

As for the latter half of AX, I’ll write about that later… I’ve got photos to upload before I can tell stories… yeah, that’s my excuse.

Now, I think I need to lie down.