I have been to many different countries, but last year, after SD2K was built, I arranged a specific trip to Nagashima Spaland. I never go to Japan in summer, as it is so terribly hot (read that as 116 degrees on five of the days I was there, whatwith 85 percent humidity), and my in-laws don't have air-conditioning in their home. I rode the bus up to Nagoya to stay the night before my trip to Spaland the next day. It rained like a monsoon all night, and when I awoke in the morning, the rains were still coming. I flew around the world for this? I basically said to my wife "damn the rain, I am going!" So, off to Spaland, where there was absolutely no line, and no promises from the park that any rides, besides the water park (which was strangely closed for an hour) would be open for the entire day. Around noon, the clouds and rain broke enough for me to get 1 ride in, and later in the day another. The park is roughly the size of CP, and there might have been 2000 people in all. So, as you can imagine, the lines were really short, and it was worth a shot, but thank God it panned out. What a horrible waste if not.........
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