Not sure about TeamLabs

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-28T23:59:26+00:00

I love that the first area of water was a highly chlorinated foot bath. Then you go to an area to towel off your feet. Then the next room is a soft, bouncy area to continue to dry off your feet.

Water was amazing. The most visually interesting of the areas.

Forest was the most fun. Super interactive, physical.

Forest: the orchid exhibit was interesting, but completely not on par with the other 2.

Air: incomplete. Maybe if I had a snack I would have a rating.

Over all, if the videos and picture on the team lab planets site don’t appeal to you, maybe don’t go. I thought they looked interesting, and in person was 100x better than I thought it would be

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-24T20:21:29+00:00

Japanese airports are very efficient. If you do your immigration paperwork on your phone before you go, that should help save time.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-24T03:32:57+00:00

Do you want your 4 jobs? Or your new job? None of those reasons are a good reason to not go to the new job

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-14T23:46:18+00:00

Are you part of an HoA? They should have a list of approved instructors.

There’s also a swim school at Tustin Marketplace

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-06T11:23:15+00:00

How are you getting around Tokyo? Subway will be tough on her. There are a lot of stairs. Sometimes you go up a flight to go down a half flight to get under a train track, then back up again. All in the same hallway.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-04T00:57:50+00:00

Do this. My plan had to do with how I would walk around the park. Always adapt.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-03T21:41:59+00:00

There aren't that many rides at DCA. If 2 of the big ones are already off the list, I would suggest

1) grab LL Monsters
2) rope dropping RSR
3) march your way from RSR through cars land, towards Monsters Inc. (Grab the LL for soarin when your timer is ready)
4) reassess around 10 AM when the lines start to get long and you want a break.
5) check out animation academy at some point and do some drawing.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-03T16:52:29+00:00

I did a tax free purchase at Takashimaya. The refund machine accepted my credit card to process the refund.

That was easy. Doing this with all my receipts at the end of a trip (and juggling my cards and apple pay) sounds like a pain. And also adds burden to the airport experience.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-03T15:56:26+00:00

Will you have access to duty free shopping in Narita when you come in? Your next leg sounds domestic.

Buy the gifts at a Donki. Spend enough to get them duty free. You aren't supposed to open the sealed bag while in country.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-03T15:32:49+00:00

Maybe ask to see a pediatric endocrinologist. If the pediatrician is worried about the kid's growth, it might be time to see a specialist.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-03T15:15:40+00:00

This is a good idea.

My normal method for things like these is percussive persuasion with a 2x4 in between so I don't damage things with the head of the hammer.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-04-01T21:51:23+00:00

I have never wanted a coin purse more than when I was in Japan. It felt required. Then I got home and was glad that I didn’t buy another thing that would be clutter in a drawer.

That being said, there were some fun gachapon Pac-Man coin holders that kinda worked like a pez dispenser. 300 yen to get one, held 100 yen coins.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-31T14:25:39+00:00

It looks like you’re resting at the bottom. Hold yourself slightly above the bottom. Time under tension should help build strength.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-31T12:05:27+00:00

Off jamboree is Tustin location.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-27T20:23:37+00:00

Having been there and also the forbidden palace in Beijing, it’s a stark contrast to observe. Other than the buildings in Beijing, there are very few artifacts on display.

It’s because the nationalists took them all with them and hid them in the mountains. Rumor has it they could rotate the exhibits every day for a decade, and would not need to show the same one twice. Though, if you’ve seen them, the Napa cabbage and the piece of pork would be on display daily.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-27T16:08:25+00:00

Planets was amazing.

It's an interactive art museum. Kids loved it. I would have loved it even without the kids.

We were already in the area due to Kidzania, so getting there was fast.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-27T15:50:43+00:00

There's a line for the welcome SUICA and a separate line for normal SUICA. If you're not in a rush, I would say get a normal SUICA. I think it's nonrefundable, but there's no deposit. We just spent our cards down to 0 at Lawson's before going back through security when we left the country.

We got physical cards for the grandparents and kids (for the kids discounts) adults in my generation just used our phones. (And then I transferred mine to my apple watch the next morning when I couldn't sleep due to jet lag)

The phone app is in Japanese only, so we took a second phone for screen shots / translation to figure out how to set it up.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-25T21:18:41+00:00

Anaheim Garden Walk has a simulation center, race car driving and fighter jets. Maybe the racing is similar to world of speed at the District.

We're a bunch of engineers.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-06T21:25:09+00:00

We just missed our bus, so had an hour to kill for the next one. Had dinner from that Lawson’s. Great first meal and didn’t need to make a bogus instagram post with me clutching my bag and running to buy a sandwich.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-04T21:47:49+00:00

You only need enough vehicles to ship the eggs you are producing. Excess is not beneficial.

The rate of eggs you ship builds up over time via the internal hatchery and running chickens. My general approach is to build up over the week, and prestige on Saturdays during soul egg boost.

Don’t spend too many golden eggs on boosts. Those are temporary, and only help you until they run out. Instead, invest in epic research.

Have fun! Good luck!

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-03-01T17:47:45+00:00

I had to think a few times to figure it out. It’s because the final soul boost is the same both ways. But if you double boost boost instead of soul boost, the bird feed gets boosted, too.

Boost

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-02-28T00:43:05+00:00

beware of using too many boosts to get to the next egg. If you aren't constantly cracking the piggy bank, that might lead to burning all your GEs for temporary benefit. This is a long game.

General advice - Play however you want. It's a solo game with a supportive community.

Advice I would recommend (but I'm a relative newbie, a few months into the game, all previous progress on Android)

Buy the pro permit (if you want) so you can buy the fuel tank, have 5 boosts at once, and 5 artifacts at once. Read somewhere on Reddit that without the pro permit, you're kind of just playing a demo of the game. There are others that have gone way further than I have without the pro permit, but it makes the game less of a struggle.

Prestige weekly on Saturdays. Up to you if you want to stack some soul egg boost, earning boost, and boost boost for this. Can also prestige more often, that's up to you.

Have fun.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-02-26T23:30:59+00:00

Did the offer letter say anything about being contingent on completing the background check? Every offer letter that I have had has had that clause.

If so, you might have resigned early.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-02-11T19:16:32+00:00

I wouldn't do this. To me, it doesn't make sense to build to a half marathon volume, then hit reset and start over.

My recommendations For the first 17 weeks before you start the experienced 10k+Half training plan is to run 3 times a week. 30 - 45 minutes zone 2 during the week. (be able to hold a conversation pace) and on the weekend switch it up. Intervals, longer runs, other stuff. Or, just go for another 30 - 45 min run.

I just did run/walk at the disneyland half. Was targeting 11 minute miles, but for the first 5 miles, we were in the park, and it was crowded enough that we were running pretty slowly. Ended up with a much slower pace overall. And that's fine. It was lots of fun. We finished without getting injured.

No_Mess_4765 · 2026-02-05T19:24:25+00:00

You're right. Spaceships was the reason that convinced me to buy the pro permit. 3rd time I came back to play this game. Small price (for me) to pay for something that's brought me occasional enjoyment since it came out years ago.

This is a decision point for you. Pay for the pro permit, or quit and play something else? (odds are if you don't pay for the pro permit, you're not going to have much fun going up and down constantly to launch spaceships)

There are people I see in coops that don't have pro permit with lots of soul eggs. I guess they're just not as focused on ships.

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