Christmas Illuminations...

A couple of weekends ago, my boyfriend and I went to see illuminations.  There was one place in particular I wanted to go but we ended up seeing some nice illuminations in Tama Center also:

Then on to what I really wanted to see was よみうりランド：

These illuminations were beautiful and I'm afraid the photos just don't do them justice.  There's something about illuminations that really gets me in the Christmas spirit.  I hope your holiday season is starting out magically. 

Illuminations...

Before I board a plane tomorrow afternoon for the mother country, there was one thing I had to see before they all disappear sometime right after Christmas.

Japan is famous for some spectacular illuminations.  Oddly enough none of the mega famous ones are in Tokyo.  Strange right?  Regardless we have some pretty lovely illuminations.  My friend Kathryn wasn't feeling much of the holiday spirit so I asked her along and we went to two places.

First stop Shiodome:

Blue lights everywhere!

Sea of blue

White tree

Pink tree

Green trees

Projections on the Caretta building

More projections

Reindeer

Presents!

Santa sees you!

Christmas market

After Shiodome, we headed over to Roppongi:

Tokyo Tower sparkled for a bit...

...and then drew a heart.

Roppongi Hills

White trees

Beautiful!

Cars & Christmas

Tree lined street

Louis Vuitton

And giant spider!  Giant rose and regular sized Tokyo Tower.

Managed to photograph the one star viewable in Tokyo.

I hope you enjoyed this little peek at some of Tokyo's illuminations.

I hope that whatever you celebrate that you spend it with the ones you love and you have a joyous time.  Happy Holidays!

Shopping...

I'm having a really hard time right now.  Honestly, I spent a good chunk of the afternoon crying.  My wonderful friend, Beth, decided to cheer me up with sushi and shopping.  I actually did my first Christmas shopping of the season at a store!  I bought some gifts online already.  It made me feel better to get some Christmas shopping done.  I don't know what to get anyone which is sad since I usually pride myself on my shopping ability.

Next week (Mon - Wed) Kiki and I are going to Disneyland.  I really had boots on the brain but I don't have a pair of boots that would be comfortable to wear all day at Disneyland.  Well, Zizibeh solved that problem!  Kiki talked me out of the stylish high-heeled studded boots because she said I already had too many pairs like the ones I was looking at.  She's so sensible.  But she said I didn't have boots like these:

So I got the cute military style boots and they are SO comfortable!  I'm imagining them with a pair of leggins.  Hopefully, they'll be cute that way.

I also got this adorable red-eyed bobble bunny necklace for $2.95!

This is what I wanted to wear out:

But because it was a little chilly, I ended up changing sweaters:

I still haven't got the hang of mirror pics yet.  Leggins from Wal-Mart, skirt made by me, boots Kohl's, legwarmers and eared hoodie from eBay, 1st sweater and tank from Goodwill.

Hopefully, your spirits are up and you're getting all your Christmas shopping done.  :)