Paperwork

Today I came back from a couple of days at SeaWorld with the family to find a packet of info from JFMF in my mailbox.   There's a lot of paperwork to be done, and I got started on it right away.  

The only thing I could complete today was my travel registration.  It's weird to say it was exciting filling out a form online, but listing my local airport and requesting my "Dairy Vegetarian Meal" made this trip seem closer!  There are deadlines to meet between now and then so there will be plenty to do to make the time fly until June 8th.  Other JFMF journals have listed the fact that sometime before the trip, the JFMF will get a listserv going so that the participants will be able to contact each other via email before the trip.  I'll be looking forward to this, because I'm going to want to find people to go do things with during my one free day in Tokyo.  There are a couple of things I've been considering:

• Kyoto. This is a place I'd love to visit.  The capital of Japan from the 700s until the late 1860s, Kyoto is the seventh largest city in Japan and one of the most beautiful. Downside: two-and-a-half hours each way taking the Shinkansen from what I hear.  Not so sure I want to spend five hours on a train a week after spending eleven on a plane. 
• Tokyo DisneySea. My wife and I love going to DisneyWorld here at home in Florida, and I've been to Disneyland Paris back when it first opened and was known as EuroDisney.  I think I'd enjoy visiting a unique park unlike the ones I know so well.  Plus, I hear there's a different version of the Tower of Terror there.  Downside: being from Central Florida, am I really going to spend my one day in Japan hanging out at a Disney park?
• Just walking around looking for cool stuff.  Possibly cheapest option, unless I find cool stuff... then may turn into most expensive. Downside: get lost in the streets of Tokyo forever... chopped in half by samurai... squashed by a sumo... possibilities are endless, but no risk no return, right?

One thing's for sure, I definitely want to go to a Yomiuri Giants baseball game at the Tokyo Dome some night after workshops and visits are complete!  Also, "Linda Linda" at Karaoke!