Rachel's Next Adventure

Original timetable. Revised timetable before Todd Haberkorn missed his flight. The Sunday event got off to a bad start, with doors opening 1 hour and 10 minutes late, but other than that, the gaming area's roof blowing off, and a few dealers deciding to leave due to wet power sockets and unsteady marquees the day went better than Saturday, with timetables being behind in the morning but getting back on track by the afternoon. Once we got in, around 10:20am, we headed over to the Estatic arts to pick up a couple of figures I wanted before heading in to watch the Kendo demo and a couple of the dances that the Seiza Project performed (the Kendo demo was on before the Seiza Project Dance, this is probably due to the venue opening over an hour late, but as Todd Haberkorn's Q&A was cancelled it'd didn't take long for the timetable to go back to schedule). After that we headed to a couple of stalls, got a snowcone and then headed to town as my friend...

We arrived at the venue just before 10am - the doors wouldn't open for non-VIP tickets until 10, but when we arrived we found that there was still a long queue of VIP ticket holders who hadn't got in yet (I do feel bad for them having paid extra to get an extra hour of time in the convention and not getting it). It then took an hour and a half for us to get in through the general queue, the official statement is that they only had two ticket scanners, a similar problem to what they had last year, so fingers crossed they hire more next year as the venue is bigger meaning the capacity and amount of tickets sold could grow. This was the original timetable, but queue to Sean being ill and Todd missing his flight, all talks were cancelled except Uncle Kage's Story Hour. This was the revised timetable after Sean's cancellation. The timetable messed up a few times, as by 10am they were already running half an hour behind, then around 1:30pm one member of staf...

Ok just a quick update, this weekend i'll be at Sunnycon 4 so there probably won't be any posts on here until Monday or Tuesday. You can keep up to date with whats happening at Sunnycon via my Instagram page and Twitter , where i'll no doubt be posting stuff quite regularly. Sunnycon Update: Sean Schemmel will no longer be making an appearance. Todd Haberkorn will be arriving late. Instagram: @elstoleno Twitter: @elstoleno I'll probably be posting on Tumblr too ~ click here , but it'll just be posts shared from my Instagram account. So for now here are two videos from last year's Sunnycon. Follow this blog on BlogLovin' Like us on Facebook

I've had that much to share recently that i'm posting a few things quite a while after they happened! I didn't want to post daily for a week or so then have no posts for a while, so, for now at least, i'll be posting once every two days. A few years ago, Fulwell Windmill was badly damaged in strong winds, leading to the closure of the windmill, and on top of that, they stopped lighting the windmill at night, which meant that the iconic symbol standing in the backdrop wasn't visible at night, it made the area dull. As a college student, we did a project based on buildings that lit up at night, I shot my project at Fulwell Windmill and Penshaw Monument (basically everyone shot Penshaw Monument), so for now at least, college students taking the same course will struggle finding somewhere unique to shoot. Anyway, moving on, the windmill is now, finally being repaired, it has not been announced how long it will take to repair the windmill, but all that has happen...

With just 40 days to go now I thought I'd best post another update! Things have been moving a bit more slowly since the last update, but we've just found out that the Fussa Tanabata Matsuri is on the day after the Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival so we'll hopefully be popping over to Fussa Station for a little while that day. We've booked another hotel, I know, four hotels in one trip, thats a little bit over the top.. But this hotel we needed because our original flight home was cancelled and now the Narita Express from Ikebukuro can't get us to the airport in time for our flight home. So we're moving to a hotel near Nippori Station and will be taking the Keisei Skyliner to the airport. Like our hotel near Disneyland, we can't pay for it until we check in.  We still don't have tickets for the Fireworks, we had asked someone we know who is living in Tokyo to help us out because it looks like tickets need to be picked up from 7 Elev...

I just wanted to share a couple of close up photos of my birthday cake. I actually forgot to take some proper photos before the cake was cut - I do have some that I took on my iPhone 6 though, but they're obviously not the greatest quality. My Mam decorated this cake with my brother when I went out the day before my birthday. My brother spent most of the time eating the spare icing from what my Mam said! The cake is a plain photocake from Asda. The coloured icing is a Dr Oetker colour icing set. And the ricepaper cupcake topper decoration (see bottom right) was bought on Amazon, they came in official packaging. Follow this blog on BlogLovin' Like us on Facebook

As you may remember from my post on the 17th, I had wanted the Mickey Mouse backpack from the new Disney x Vans series, but it was missing from the UK website until a week after the series released. The minute the bag came live on the website (I think it was the day before my birthday) I had to order it! It arrived on the 15th of June (Sorry, I thought it deserved it's own post rather than being put in with the one on the 17th). Its not the biggest bag around, so I don't think i'll be taking it to Japan with me, but it should be fine for when I go into Newcastle or wherever for a few hours. If i'm honest, the bag doesn't look at nice in person as it does on the website, it seems quite a bit darker in person. I wish i'd gotten the Donald Duck backpack to match my shoes, but this is the one I originally wanted, and I do like it. Follow this blog on BlogLovin'