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A couple of weeks ago, Margaret and I went to a One Piece theme park. Well, it was really Laguna-a small theme park/water park in a town called Gamagori. This little park was having a One Piece (an AWESOME anime about pirates) event for a couple of months. With us being HUGE fans of the show, there was NO way we could miss out on all of the goodness. So, we hopped on a train out to Gamagori and the adventure began.

Upon arriving in the very small town, we managed to locate the bus we needed to take. However, we neglected to see what stop we needed to get off at and ended up getting off at the wrong stop. This didn't deter us in the least. Being that we are so very used to getting lost, we just looked at this a yet another oops in the many-adventures-of-Summer-and-Margaret. So, we walked and walked and walked around the marina. Finally we found our destination and all of the pirate glory.


Once inside the park, we rode the many (and my many I mean few) attractions, ate, walked around, took pics, and have a FABULOUS time. The most interesting thing to see were all of the people in cosplay. We saw so many people walking about and taking pics dressed as their favorite One Piece character. Most of them were girls and wow, they dressed the roles to a tee. It was pretty cool to see all of the effort they put into their costumes. It was even more impressive to see them walk around in their HUGE platform shoes (they needed the height to play the male characters). In addition to that, there was a large and very nice pavilion dedicated to everything One Piece. There were different scenes from the anime, cut-outs, interactive pieces, videos, the works. It-was-AWESOME!

Now, you know I took pics of the fateful day but, there were just too many to load onto this blog, so I uploaded them onto my flickr account. Here's the link:
Luffy says "CLICK HERE FOR PICS"

Enjoy!