Thanks everybody for the company, the phone calls, text messages, twitter x facebook messages!

I appreciate it all! Here are some pics and videos!!!

Raging Waters

... next time we'll ride this!!!


with clothes...


without clothes!!!


after getting wet




pineapple desserts!


and the fan service!!!
 



Luna Park!!!

  

Honto wa Creepy Baby in the BG...




... and with my awesome hat from Annie!!!



"How to Asian Pose for a picture"

July 4

• Tsunku Panel!  I was 15 minutes late in arriving - didn't prepare my lemonade... well prepared it, but it wasn't ready to take on the road.  Didn't realize that until I was about to leave.  I passed our early the night before... so oops!
• Everyone was asking great questions though!  Found lots of insights about Tsunku... so cute about his twin girls and hoping they have charisma and are charisma babies... rather than not.  LOL.  Sad to hear about his larynx hardening that it's difficult for him to hit falsetto.  Hope he can get it fixed properly... it must be frustrating attempted to sing/demonstrate songs when you can't sing them the way you want to.  The part about his wife was also cute... about women and their fixations with sweets!  Yup!!!
• Afterwards got info for the autograph session... and walked around dealers hall.  
• !!!  FOUND MY 1:1 scale Chopper!!!!!  YAAAAAY!!!  YAY!
• Got food for Steph x Rene using comps.  
• Saw Karrie's future baby.  CUTEST baby girl ever.  Poor thing was in a full leg cast.  Probably broke her hip and had her entire right thigh/leg and even around her hip/pelvis wrapped.  Still sooooo cute.  Kept trying to feed her dad and doing a "fireball" movement.  She even did a Karrie face.
• Heard screaming.  Talked about how screaming happened for Momosu the previous day.
• Looked up and saw Reina walking upstairs.  Started waving frantically!  She noticed and later saw JunJun, Eri, Sayu, and Aika walk by.  Cutest part was when Sayu and Eri walked by and Rene did usa-chan Peace and Eri saw it and pointed.  Sayu went back and did an usa-chan peace also!  Later walking by again and us frantically waving some more!  Yay cause I don't think anyone else was waving besides us... so personal waves!!!  *Happy!*
• Finally saw Victor (Daigong from JP! HiP) - and took a picture with him similar to our Sakura-con photo =)
• Lingered around the autograph area... then in line - talked to Matt x Paul again!  (Totally ran into them a lot!)  Matt had the cutest Reina towel!
• A bit sad... Autograph panel went by so quickly.  They rushed everyone so everyone would get a chance for autographs.
• Lingered outside at the tables area.  Rene snapped some pictures getting silhouettes through the curtains.  LOL.  Stalkers!!!
• Finally said hello to Vicky.  She was one of the translators for the girls... and when I said "Hi" she seemed confused at first.  Then I was like - It's Kim!  Then she was like "Oh!!!  You lost weight!"  LOL.  really?  Maybe the Master Cleanse... plus the hair style.  Anyways we chatted a brief while and intro-ed her to Steph and Rene since she was their translator.  Yagu-san called her away afterwards and hope I didn't get in her in trouble.  Gave her a hug and got her number!  =)  Lol at Rene being surprised at her knowing Chris/Maryann/Won.  I told her we all went to elementary school together. 
• Picked up my Chopper and heard screaming.  T_T Missed Momosu exiting.
• Chilled at the food court again and met up with Bran x Sherwin.  
• Got food for Karrie and Steph
• Talked about Master Cleanse
• Then parted ways!  Walked with Bran and gave him my scooter for Pheter

Meet the Guests reception!!! 
The reception allowed each "table" to have 15 minutes with each guest... then the host/moderator would yell and we would switch tables. Very similar to speed-dating... just longer, and with better looking people! Yay cause Momosu was there and looking ultra ultra cute! They shared two circular tables with Ai/Koharu/Aika/JunJun/LinLin at the left table and Sayumi/Eri/Risa/Reina at the right table.

• Round 1 - When we first entered, their table was filled so we sat with Kari Wahlgreen... who was hilarious!- she worked at a Victoria's Secret before and could say funny things in Spanish... like "Do you need a bra that will lift your boobs?" "Si!" When the hostess announced we had to switch we quickly stood up and moved to Momosu's tables... and yay!!! Got to sit with them!
• Round 2 - After grabbing seats... we realized quickly that they split up the tables into 2 groups... even though they were next to each other!!!  Stephanie and Rene were at the first table (with Ai Taka) and I was at the second table with Sayu!  (T__T)  It was still awesome, but Sayu = Steph's favorite and Ai Taka = my favorite!  It was okay because I sat with 2 other people... so the ratio was 4 Momosu girls to 3 fans!!!   It was me, Matt (dude from the U.K.), and this Japanese lady.  and hehehe the Japanese lady barely said anything!  So it was mostly Matt and me chatting to the girls!... aside from Yagu-san (UFA handler) haggling poor Matt the majority of the time.  We talked about jetlag, shopping (I suggested Melrose), food (poor Eri didn't get her Pink's hot dog), sight-seeing (Disneyland, Hollywood walk-of-fame, Magic Mountain) - they ended going to the walk-of-fame the previous night, were interested in Magic Mountain and sad they couldn't go to Disneyland, Matt going to 6 concerts when he was in Japan, how Matt used to be an AKB48 fan but transitioned into a Momosu fan... Yagu-san haggling him more about buying merch since he's so rich... and wah I should have wrote everything down sooner!!!  15 minutes was too too quick and time was over.  
• Round 3 - Morikawa... such a super hot sexy voice!  I'm glad we got to catch most of his panel the day before (prior to Momosu's).  It was cute that he wanted his most remembered character to be D-boy from Tekkaman Blade.  I remember watching it was a kid!  It was on UPN 13.  Yup.  Pretty nerdy I remember the channel.  I asked him if he ever listened to his "characters" in English by other actors and what he thought... and he said he hasn't - but now he's interested and wants to hear.  I kept thinking about Joey from Yugioh!  because he has such a strong NY accent here XD
• Round 4 - Gurren Laggen - Sadly... I've never watched Gurren Laggen, and LOL cause Steph and Rene interviewed them 2 days earlier.  We asked them about other anime/manga they watch/read... and they mentioned Transformers.  and how one of them has seen it 2x already.  We suggested watching it in IMAX.  The other was jealous he's going to see it a 3rd time and it will only be his first.  (cute!)  Then they said they ate In-n-Out burgers and it was the best burgers they've had to date.  Very cute!  Until Rene said that Father's Office burgers were even better... then they wanted to try it!  So we suggested Father's Office then Transformers in IMAX!   The only sort of annoying thing was the other girl at our table.  She was self-promoting saying she dressed up as Yoko and then started talking about Shokotan from the prior year.  It confused them a bit since it was off topic.  Later she kept talking about Transformers and "which one was it?"... to keep pulling the attention to her.  Didn't really like her... sort of annoying ^^;  I don't really like people who self-promote and attention whore.
• Then there was 1 more round, but we decided to grab food... and by we that means Rene and Steph since I couldn't eat!  (Master Cleanse!)  LOL at Steph not wanting to wrap her pastry in a napkin... but doing it anyways.  We sat at an empty table and chatted with Matt (U.K. dude) and me his friend Paul!  (I wish I got a photo with them!  I chatted with them throughout the next 2 days!)

Concert time!!!

While walking through the West Hall... you could hear Momosu doing sound check for the songs!  We lined up for the concert early... Seating started at 12:30p... so we got in line around 11:00a?  I forgot - but it was something like that.  and BOOO!!!  the line was outside!  It started out alright... since I was initially cold... then it was sweat beading down my back!  LOL yuck!  A big yay was that someone was walking asking to trade 2 premium tickets for 1 autograph ticket... and!  I traded!  yay!!!  Beyonce upgrade from E10 to D7!  It totally made it more awesome!  Steph and I sat there and that left Karrie/Rene/Caroline to use the other tickets that were paid for.  Later I gave Annie the tix for her and Tiffy and =(  poor overworked Annie was in a freezer of a judging room... but you had a view upstairs of the concert hall!  I snagged some quick photos... but unfortunately my camera wasn't awesome enough to get good pictures.  I chatted to Annie for a little bit and found out Tiffy injured her foot!  So later I found the first-aid/medic and got info on renting wheelchairs (which later turned into a really good thing for me).  At about 12:40p the line started moving... and yay!  in we went!

• Highlights inside - Ran into Matt and Paul again!  They were 2 rows in front of us so we chatted with them for a bit until staff told us to sit down.  
• Talked to Annie and Tiff!  Yay Annie = not in the judging room and Tiffy = there!  =( to being in a wheelchair though!
• DANGER!!!  If a glow-stick is cracked and glowing... shake it.  don't try to "crack" it some more.  I didn't really know this... and the glow-stick broke and squirted into my eye and face!!!  (15 min before the concert was scheduled to start)  I found out later it squirted onto the poor guy behind me and got on his shirt and burned his arm.  I ended up running into the bathroom and flushing my eye with water... but it didn't help.  So while I was crying and holding my burning eye I went to the main entrance telling them what happened and I needed a medic/first aid/help.  AX Staff helped me and luckily I knew where first aid was (inquiring for Tiffy's wheelchair) and they did a water flush of my eye using eye drops...!  Ahhhh!  Relief!!!  I went to the bathroom to flushed it some more myself and... phew!  Not blind or needing to go to the hospital.  I was really worried for a moment.  Funny point:  when exiting the first aid I ran into Mikey + GF?  And lol at him being all "Oh... of course it's you" or something to that extent.  I was pretty traumatized when it happened so I don't remember his exact words.  But the staffer helping me laughed that Mikey and I knew each other.  They allowed me to go back in and I got to my seat!  Phew!  Literally minutes before the concert was about to start!!!  *was worried*
• Concert started!!!
• OMG SOOOOO awesome!!!!  I'm inspired to do more USA Musume stuff!!!  The girls were so on point and it was cute to see them make mistakes... very minor though.  They sounded really great too!!!  I'm happy they did full songs for Mikan, Shouganai, 3-2-1 Breaking Out!, How do you Like Japan?, Resonant Blue, Love Machine, Sono Bamen de Bibichaikenaijan, and, Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou... wah I don't remember - I had to look it up... I almost forgot about Resonant Blue and needed to look up the name for the environmental song.  I loved everything!  Yay for their medley of earlier generation songs - I Wish (that tricked Steph and me thinking it was Shabondama), Renai Revolution 21, Sou Da!  We're Alive, The Peace, Happy Summer Wedding, and Koi no Dance Site.  I think that's it...!  There was an encore of 3-2-1 Breaking Out and sooo cute!  They also announced the winners of the OPV contest and I can see why they won!  very cute!  I wish I knew how to do that stuff... I would have attempted an entry then.  The Grand Prize (by I.C.?) was especially cute in the love letter rejection part.  ^^
• Concert ended and I met up with Annie and Tiffy and took pictures with some gals from SF!  They were dressed up in Salt-5 and it really made me want to wear my Salt 5 outfit!!!  We chatted with them a little bit and LOL cause they recognized me and asked if I was in USA Musume.  haha!  Then I pointed out Tiffy and Annie and yup!  recognition!  They asked if we were still active and Tiffy and I talked later about how we needed to update our webpage and do more things!  *Inspired!!!*
• Went to the Japan Files and Morning Musume booth and they were out of T-shirts!  Luckily I got mine the first day, but Tiffy and Annie weren't able to get one =(  
• Parted with Annie and Tiffy and I ran into several different people!  After socializing for a while... decided to call it a night and headed home!

O_O  how did diamond plaza turn into 3 hours???  

chilled at frank n sons
ate at furaibo... yum!
then diamond plaza... o_o


bought 2 cute items today!


... and!

a foxtail!  

a black foxtail.  


not for me.

for jerry!  hehe!  he's going to put it on his guitar.  
when he does... i'm going to take a picture of it and put it on here.


... i'm sort of bummed out my pictures won't upload onto my journal entries... sort of bites!  =(


i'll upload later on my photos when i put them on the macbook
 

anyways... thanks for a fun time today!
@_@ even though mine back - hurting!
too much dancing this morning... but!
that's ok - because if it helps me improve... then it's worth it!