Meeting Totoro part II I Wish I Could Stay Forever page 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Another Picture of the Centre Hall Scanned from the Studio Ghibli Souvenir Booklet I wandered through the museum and took in every display three more times. I must have spent a solid half-hour staring at that zoetrope. On the third level, I stopped at every stained glass window and took in every minute detail. I took a moment to watch the kids playing on the catbus. I read a whole book in the animator’s library. I pumped water in the courtyard. Odds were I’d never be back again. I’d never have another chance to do that stuff. The Stained Glass Windows Scanned from a Ghibli Museum postcard Gift shop time. Now, this is where that third voice telling me that I’d never be here again and that I should make the most of it always got me in trouble. In situations like this, that voice always led me to overspending. There were lots and lots of high priced items. In the end I bought: a series of postcards of the inside of the museum, a series of postcards showing scenes from the kittenbus film, the soundtrack for the kittenbus film (although, a smarter idea would have been selling it on DVD in the gift shop, but oh well), a really cool postcard of a Hayo Miyazaki-style mermaid, the souvenir book all about the museum (in English) and the requisite postcard to send to Mr. Anderson and Yves. (I sent them a postcard from every place I went to in Japan.)   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 <<Previous Page | Next Page>> Return to the Columns Page © Mark Sladen Cappis, 2005