Happy Tokyo Birthday, Rodney!!

Rodney's Happy Birthday breakfast!!
He'd enjoyed a Krispy Kreme earlier in the room ;o)
ham, scrambled eggs, chicken nuggets, and a hamburg .... yes, hamburg

The breakfast buffet was included in our visit. Not your typical American spread, of course. I had a salad, a dab of scrambled eggs, a piece of fried ham, new potatoes, cauliflower, tater tots, a pasta tuna dish, and chicken nuggets that were straight up McDonald's nuggets!!!!

Following breakfast, we made our way to DisneyLand!!!
(see next post!)

Upon our return, we discovered a card had been slipped under our door, addressed to "Mr. Weaver." The Guest Relations person had made Rodney a birthday card!!

Notice the birthday badge :o)
All day at the park, when a cast member would see that, they would clap their hands and say, "Happy birthday!! Happy birthday!!" and all with a bow, of course!

On our last morning, we found that sweet birthday card maker :)

And she offered to take a picture of us, too!

A very fun Japanese tidbit are the photo booths and they had a couple in the hotel!

Each pic is about 1 inch by 1.5 inches. Simply cut them apart, peel the backing off, and place your adorable sticker on your phone!!

Tokyo DiverCity Plaza

After getting checked into our hotel, it was still early enough in the afternoon to take one of the resort buses to Maihama Station where we could catch a train/subway to DiverCity. See, we had done our research and discovered they had a Krispy Kreme there!!!

Maihama Station
Following the walkway will take you to "The TOWN." Both parks are in walking distance from here, as well. We went into the station to the ticket machines to get our train tickets.

But, first, we had to decipher the map!!
Thankfully, this portion was in both Japanese and English!

Waiting for our train :)

 

There are four different train lines that run through different areas and we needed to ride two of them for this outing, which meant we had to get another set of tickets! This one was a bit trickier in that the map was only in Japanese, so we had to play "match the character" to find our stop :)
But, again thankful that the machines have an "English" button to aide in the actual purchase!!

We both thought this building was an example of some real cool Japanese architecture! 

Confirmation---we rode the right trains!!
And, surprise, surprise--not only do they have a Krispy Kreme, they have an Auntie Anne's!!!!!!

They also have this GIANT "Gundam"!
Gundam is a robot from the Japanese anime series. 

As expected.....PACKED!!
Of course, since we're here on a Sunday, pretty much the only day many of them have off from work, I didn't expect any different.

A "Hello Kitty" store!
You can purchase these adorable cream filled pastry Hello Kitties or dried squid and octopus tentacles......

 

I opted for the pastries!!
I chose the box of eight... four with chocolate and four with custard(ish).

Yeah, that's what the store's called.....!!!

Then it was time to find some lunch (and TRY to find a seat!!) at the food court.
Later we found some Western food places on one of the upper floors (i.e. McDonald's and Subway), but not knowing those were there... 

 ...we chose from among the Japanese places.

Katu Don
pork cutlet over rice w/ onions and egg
Both 'sets' also came with a soda and broth soup.

Katu Curry
pork cutlet over rice w/ curry sauce

I really wanted to try a Curry & Cheese Pretzel from Auntie Anne's, but the line was much longer than I cared to wait :)

But, Rodney was willing to wait no matter how long to choose his birthday Krispy Kremes!!!

One happy "tomorrow's my birthday" boy!!!

Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel Club Resort

 

Our hotel from the closest monorail stop

The lobby
See the window third down from the top on the right hand side? That was outside our room!

This end of the lobby housed a couple of eateries....

...the other end housed a wedding "chapel"!
Rodney and I found it interesting that even though Japan is not a Christian country, there was a cross on the podium.

The eatery area was lovely lit up at night!

Interesting the differences between stateside Disney hotels and this one.....
these two windows and a little Disney store were really the only thing 'Disney' about it!
I guess for the whole big Disney experience a person would need to spend the big bucks and stay at the DisneyLand or DisneySea hotel :)

 

Although, a girl could have her Barbie Dream Wedding here!!
The lower floor of the hotel had 3-4 large 'conference rooms' used specifically for that purpose!!

 

ROOM 829

When we opened the door to our room, we actually were looking at a ~5x5 space and two closed doors....kind of a weird feeling! Turns out, the door to the right was the room, while the door in front of us was the toilet room :)

 

Our view acrossTokyo Bay

The shower room...

...complete with kids toothbrushes ;o)

The toilet room

It's funny--- a toilet with all these buttons is actually commonplace to me now!

Although, I must admit, it's nice to actually see in written English what the different buttons mean!

Yes, that's what it says.....!!!!