Trying to plan our trip was pretty tough, especially since we knew parking would totally suck! We had plans to carpool to the rails. And then that had to change because we figured not everyone would fit. So next plan was for me to borrow the 4runner and pick-up Gen and meet everyone else at the rails out in Torrance. The 4runner would be best because neither of us wanted to leave our nice cars there. Luckily none of us left our cars there because Mark offered to take all of us in his Dad's van! Thanks Mark!!
I'm glad we didn't take the rails because when we got there, we saw a massive line! Holy cow! It wrapped around three sides of a block! Luckily the badge pick-up line wasn't too long. Also, we noticed that that long line may have been for the tea room because when we got in line, there was this massive break, big enough that we thought it was the end of the line. But then, girls behind us were loudly making comments about us cutting. Whatevs! As long as we get in!
We were given a buncha tips by Joan, since she went there on Thursday. But, funny thing, when we got there, we disregarded every tip she gave us. LOL. For instance, go inside first because outside lines will be shorter later. Nope, we did outside activities first. But that's because we got a warning that a storm may be heading our way.
She also told us that we can pick-up our Target bag at the end because there will practically be no line and they shouldn't run out. We went there first, hahaha! But we did want it so that we can throw stuff in it as we walked around. I'm glad I had it because it was hot inside and I needed a spot to store my jacket.
After we got our Target bags.. which were actually backpacks, we headed over to get fake tattoos put on us. Then we headed to the Hello Kitty Cafe Food Truck. All we wanted from there were the cute $4 water bottles because they were in the shape of Hello Kitty's bow! Lol. Everything else was overly priced there. Midway through that line, me and Gen went over the the First Aid Station because Jenn went there earlier and came back with cute tattoos of Hello Kitty wearing baseball caps for all the baseball teams. I had to get me some too! Hahaha. I tried getting all the teams, but the guy was like, don't take so many! Sadly, there were no Angels ones left.
We finally got to the Cafe Window to order. We all just ordered these cute water bottles that were in the shape of Hello Kitty's bow! They were $4 each, but I think it's the best and only souvenir that I paid for.
We were pretty much all done with outdoor activities and were going to try and stand in line for the main shop. We figured we'd be okay as far as time. Jonah said the line was like 4 hours when she went. So we were hoping for maybe a few at most. But nope! 3-4 hour wait. We were all like.. fu-ged-it!
We went inside instead and walked around the Super Market. That's were all the vendors were. It was pretty damn crowded there too, but at least no lines. We kinda separated from time to time and just looked at everything. Eventually we all met up at Mega Blocks where Mia was making something. They had this cool thing where what you make you get to take home with you. Eventually Jenn wanted to make one too. It was waaay too crowded for me to join in too, so me and Gen went walking around on our own. We left the market area and walked around the rest.
We got to see some cute/weird Hello Kitty Fashion Mannequins, which were soo Tokyo-fied..
Saw some cute vintage stuff as well..
And then, there was this.. the very first coin purse.. but omg! Hahaha, it had it's own display case and room! As Gen stated.. like they were the mother heffin Crown Jewels! LOL.
We met back up with Jenn, Janice and Mia and then walked around some more. We tried getting into the Target Store actually, but ewww, they close off the line when it reaches a certain spot and they say to come check back in like 30 minutes. And when we tried standing around waiting for the line to re-open, we were shoo'd away by some other guy saying we couldn't stand around there.
Soo.. we all walked around so that Jenn, Janice and Mia could see the stuff we saw. And then we went back to try the Target Store again.. nope! Nothing. Boo! Cyn and Celly finally got there so we all said our hellos. They went around to see all the stuff while we waited a bit more, a bit away from the line so we wont get shoo'd again. The line never re-opened for a very long time and eventually Cyn and Celly made their way back to us and we all went outside.
They were hungry, so they went to get food. We wanted to try the Target Store one more time. But ewwww, we had to wait in another line to get back in!! Gahhhh.
Anyhow, still no luck on the dang Target Line!! There was this cool game we saw that had a line though and we decided we might as well wait in line for that while we wait for the Target Line to re-open. Ohh.. if you're wondering what the Target Line is for? Well, there were carnival games inside and you can win Hello Kitty Stuff!! Anyhow, back to the mini game thing. The only ones who tried it were me and Jenn. Your tossed in a box with fans that blow around a bunch of printed paper and all of them are white except for one. To win.. you gotta grab that one! Seems easy, right? Nope! We watched all these people get there's and it looked so easy. But when it came down to it, it was hard as hell! Hahaha. I did see mine too and I tried to step on it, but yah, that didn't work. Lol! The prize was a cute band-aid tin box, which we thought contained cute band-aids! They didn't though, it just had some pins in it. So, not a complete loss. Although that band-aid tin was way cute! When we were done, the target line was still a no go. So that was it!
We headed out and went to find a food spot while we waited for Mark to pick us up.
It was fun, I probably wouldn't go again unless they included all the other Sanrio characters.
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