Lisa, the coaster enthusiast?

Nothing terribly new to post...but I am bored (I took the day off work to drive my dad to the airport, but I was home by 3:30...so I am bored!)....

However, someone once showed me this website (http://www.themeparkreview.com/photos/index.htm) and now I am pretty much obsessed...From what I gather it is supposed to be a coaster enthusiast website (...a coaster enthusiast I am NOT!!!) but all of the different pictures and stories of the different types of theme parks from around the world really interest me...particularly the Disney's around the world, and now I have found myself wanting to know more and more about these parks...

The first one I stumbled upon was Disney seas, in Tokyo...it looks AMAZING!!!

First of all is has a VOLCANO!!! and tons of great styling...trust me, take a look at the website! I WANNA GO!!! It look is sort of like Epcot, but it features real and simulated cities that are based on the seas (i.e. American waterfront, Venice etc)...and from what I can tell the best ride is the Journey to the Centre of the Earth

I haven't seen pictures of the inside of the ride, but I've heard it may be like Dinosaur in AK, but more like a rollercoaster? and everyone says there is nothing like it!

Secondly, Tokyo Disneyland looks very cool! Which, from what I can tell is really just a transplanted California Disneyland, but with its own Japanese Twist. For example, the castle...

WEIRD!!!! but so cool! All of the rides seem to be the same, but something really strange happens over there...

Chip and Dale are the most popular characters! WHAT??!! like more popular that Mickey and Minnie...I don't get it??

Anyhoo, those are the two I really want to see...there is also Disneyland Paris (aka, Euro Disney)...which I stood outside of once, but I neither had the time or the Euro's to pay for a ticket, and I chose the Louvre over anything else at the time...

So in closing...I thought I should share...and if anyone who reads this (probably no one!) is planning, plans or has gone to any of these parks...please send me pictures...or e-mail me? I'd love to hear about them!!! or even better, take me with you??

Also, just as an ending note...one major hurdle between me and Disney has been passed...I am now an official degree holder. I now own a Honours Bachelor of Arts in studies in arts and culture. It was really exciting, and surreal at the same time. I am very excited to be done, but I also am pretty sad to be done with Brock, and to no longer being a part of arts and culture (only three graduates from my program this semester...we were a sad sad bunch!)...here are some pictures for your pleasure!

Me with the obligatory graduation punch...

Thats it for now...

6 months to the day...

6 MONTHS today!!!!

I can't really believe I still have so much time to wait...

I just have a little anecdote to share....just today, after my craptacular day at work (long story....looooong day!), a fellow Disney go-er e-mailed me to ask me if I'd like to switch departure dates with her. So at this point, I'm pretty excited, hoping that I could knock a few months off of my waiting time. So I ask her when her leaving date is, and she tells me that her contract starts...get this...NEXT WEEK!!! So, I'm not going to lie...I thought about it for a second and a half...but then realized that there is no way I could do that...first of all, I promised my employers that I'd be around until the last week of november, and while I think that they would probably understand in the long run (very easy going people that I work for!!!)...I think I would feel terribly for a very long time to leave them high and dry like that! Secondly, I would never have enough time to get all my stuff together (i.e insurance, packing etc etc) and thirdly, and MOST importantly I could never leave my life just like that...I have already given my friends a buffer zone of me leaving in 6 months, and my dad as well...and my dog! I COULDN'T DO IT!!!! so thats that I guess....

I am SOOOOOO excited to be going...but I really have no idea how I am going to last for 6 months...it seems SOOOOOO SOOOOOO SOOOOO far away! I've already been going stir crazy and its only been a month....any fellow disney alum that can shed any light on how to cope with the waiting, please share!! other than that...I am terribly excited that a month is behind me...and I have some fun stuff coming up to look forward to

1) convocation is next week...very exciting in itself (4 hard years of work!!) and me and my dad are going to spend the day in Niagara falls...after I walk the stage and get my diploma, we are off to the casino and niagara on the lake for dinner! it should be quite fun! (speaking of which...I have 4 days off next week...how that happened I have no idea, but I am going to milk it for all it is worth!!)

2) lots of fun summer stuff coming up...doogies (LOL!), the pool, some summer reading, road trips, concerts etc etc...

3) I've come to the conclusion that since I am actually earning

some money (i.e. haven't really worked since last summer!)...that I should do something fun in between now and december...so me and one of my sisters good friends have decided to go to Australia to visit my sissie! WOOOOO...nothing is for sure yet...but I've been researching...a week in sydney and a week (few days) in the sunshine coast....could be a blast!!

4) also...not terribly fun, but I have to prepare myself for school following disney (MA in arts administration in New Zealand!) which is going to be alot of work in itself...but I have received my acceptance pack, and am looking forward (dreading?) to planning for loan applications, housing, Visa's, emailing back and forth...maybe a few expensive phone calls etc

So in closing....6 months to go...lots of fun stuff/not so fun stuff to do in between! and I am still QUITE excited!!! WOOOOOOO