Japan - Disney Hidden Mickeys

I went to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea several times while I was in Japan. While there I was able to a couple Hidden Mickeys.

Tokyo Disneyland

Like in California Disneyland, there's a Mickey Head in one of the planets during the que for the Buzz Lightyear ride.

Outside of Buzz Lightyear there's a sculpture of the little green alien guys, on the back of the sculpture there's a Hidden Mickey.

Haunted Mansion

Tokyo DisneySea

In the Mermaid Lagoon area there are several Hidden Mickeys in the wall surrounding the King Triton statue.

Someone had made a Hidden Mickey in the dirt.

Hidden Poo Head

Hidden North America. I think the couple sitting on the bench was wondering why I was taking a photo of them.

Someone had formed a Hidden Mickey out of rope on one of the gondolas.

Japan - Tokyo Disneyland Food

Crab Meat Pizza at Tokyo Disneyland. Pretty good!

Japan - Hot Dog

I'm pretty brave about trying new and different food and I have eaten many strange things while traveling in Japan and Asia. But one thing that I saw a lot of, but was never brave enough to try were these strange hot dogs that you could find at the convenient stores. The must be popular because every convenient store has them. One part of what scares me about them is that they are not refrigerated, they're stored out on the shelves with the breads and other pastries.

Los Angeles - Halloween Pumpkins

Every year I like to carve a couple of pumpkins for Halloween, here's my two pumpkins from this year.

Los Angeles - My Halloween Costume

My Halloween Costume.

Los Angeles - Pumpkin Time Lapse

How to carve two Halloween pumpkins in 20 seconds. Actually this is a time lapse of me carving my Halloween pumpkins. In real time it took about 2 hours to clean and carve the two pumpkins.

California - Halloween in West Hollywood

The West Hollywood Halloween Carnival is supposed to be the largest Halloween event in the the country with over 400,000 people attending. I've wanted to go the last couple of years, but this was the first year that I actually went. A section of Santa Monica Blvd. is closed for the event and stages and food vendors are set up. The event was a lot of fun, the stages had a variety of different bands and performers. But the reason most people go it to see all of the other people in strange costumes. Here's a bunch of photo I took of some of the interesting costumes.

Los Angeles - Halloween Horror Night

Halloween Horror Night at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Japan - Energy Drinks

Energy frinks seem to be pretty popular in Japan. Every convenient store has a big rack of dozens of different kinds of energy drinks.

Display rack at a convenient store.

Since they are so popular, I thought I should give one a try. I have to say that it was impressively bad tasting.

I was walking around one day and spotted this recycling bin in front of someone's house. This guy seems to be living entirely off of energy drinks.

Japan - Book Vending Machine

I was in a train station when I spotted this vending machine. It sells books, which makes sense for a train station, buy a book to read on your train ride. But what was a bit strange is that the books were waterproof for reading while in the bathtub.

Japan - Tokyo Game Show

Recently I went to the Tokyo Game Show, a huge video game expo at the Makuhari Messe convention center. The major video game companies were there to show off their latest videos games.

Entering the Tokyo Game Show

The XBox Booth

Booth Babes

Like at many conventions and expos, most of the companies at the Tokyo Game Show believed that Sex Sells (especially to video game nerds) and most of the booths were staffed with lots of pretty booth babes.

Strange combination of a Star Wars Princess Leia outfit and a Gladiator Helmet. I'm not sure what game she was promoting, but she always had a huge crowd whenever she came out.

Photographer feeding frenzy over some cute booth babes.

CosPlay

One of the other interesting things was all of the cosplay going on. Lots of people in some pretty interesting and elaborate costumes.