Aly and AJ and the Hello Kitty Bus!

Aly & AJ just set out on their biggest tour and it’s being sponsored by Helly Kitty. What better way to tour in style than on a Hello Kitty bus? This one has as much Hello Kitty merchandise as you’d find in the typical Sanrio store.

“It was ridiculous,” says AJ. “We were thinking there’d be a few things, and there’s SO much stuff!” she says.

“We saw it right before sound check and we FREAKED out!” adds Aly.

This is some of what is in the bus:

• A Hello Kitty water dispenser, popcorn maker, coffee maker and toaster that toasts a Hello Kitty face on your bread. Ice cube trays that make Hello Kitty shaped ice.
• Hello Kitty blankets, sheets, pillows, towels, rugs. A toilet seat cover – that’s a rare item, we’re told by the Hello Kitty decorators.
• Strands of Hello Kitty lights attached to the top bunks where Aly and AJ slept early Friday as the bus headed north to a show in Concord. Tons of Hello Kitty dolls, Hello Kitty clothes for the dolls, guitar straps and guitar cases.

“This is our mom’s room,” says AJ, walking us into the master bedroom at the back of the bus. And let’s really, really hope mama loves pink as much as her daughters think she does.

“Check this out – it’s a humidifier!” AJ says, pointing to a sorta egg-shaped Hello Kitty.

“Because our mom has asthma,” Aly explains.

“How cool is that?!?” AJ says – they tend to talk in a rush, finishing each others sentences like sisters, as if, oh, they’ve spent a lot of time on a bus together?

Mom also gets lots of blankets, pillows, a Hello Kitty doll made into a kind of headboard, an iPod dock with speakers.

“Half this stuff, I was like, uhhh, they make this stuff?” Aly says, pointing to the iPod device and expressing their surprise at all of the new and unexpected toys they’re getting.

Aly and AJ seemed absolutely stoked to have the Hello Kitty bus to call home for the next few months – and maybe in a way, it’s a connection to home.

It helps that the Kitty made provisions for their dog. The bus is now equipped with dog carriers, collars, bowls and bedding for Willow, a “teddy bear” mix of bichon frise and shih tzu, who comes on the road with them.

Source: OCRegister