Hoooo man. I'm gonna try to relate all of today, if only for my memory's sake.
Woke up hella early. Might have mentioned yesterday that I was going to sleep like, 5pm? Welp, woke up around 5am and got ready. Packed a few things, ate a delicious breakfast from my host mom, and headed off to Ikebukuro. Made the great decision of buying and drinking a mountain dew along the way. I think I just may be developing a caffeine addiction. It helps me cope. Whatever. Got to Ike, but Tamarra was running late, so I got to make the exciting and almost new trip to her home station. Trains are confusing. Thanks Japan.
Today was Disney Land day. Previously, I had visited Disney Sea. I talked about wanted to write about it but being exhausted and I'd write later. That was a lie. I'll probably never write about it. Other than to compare now with Disney Land. I do plan on finishing this writing today though. And now I'm getting all meta, writing about writing…
Got to Disney what we thought was late but to our surprise, we were actually almost an hour early. For some reason, Land opens at 9 while Sea opened at 8. Still no clue as to why. But that means we had a chance to get a nice locker and get sunscreened and all that before having to worry about even entering the park.
Disney is crazy big in Japan. You have no idea. People will deck themselves out in everything disney they own, and collect more while they're there, just to wear it. They number of tiny adorable princess girls was more than I could count on my hands and feet. Pretty much every other girl was wearing some sort of disney hat or ears or headband or bow or something. Guys got into it too. Couples wear matching outfits, families all wear matching ensembles, the whole get out. It's insane. Disney makes these collages of characters for shirts and stuff, and it's incredibly busy. I saw a guy wearing that design on his shirt and pants, disney theme shoes, a huge mad-hatter hat that was adorned with numerous disney plushes, and a backpack decked out the same. And it's not just the young people. Tamarra and I saw this old lady with a backpack on that you couldn't even see for all the plushes covering it.
Anyway, first ride of the day was Pirates. I was super excited. The line was an amazing 5 minute wait. It stopped seconds in. At that point with the skull just after the bayou. We were evacuated. They pronounced evacuate wrong. It was something like "evucate", like they forgot a syllable. We got a voucher that worked as a fast pass for any ride though.
Next was to Big Thunder Mountain. The line was enormous. Like, halfway into critter country long. We decided to pass on that at the moment and headed to Splash Mountain. By that point, it had already gotten to be extremely hot. Got fastpasses for Splash and headed around the corner for Haunted Mansion. Said it was a 45 minute wait, so we hopped on that. It was interesting in Japanese to say the least. Most of the dialog was in Japanese, but any songs and some of the more major parts were in english, just like at home. Got to talk along at the end "hurry back, hurry back, don't forget to bring your death certificate…" in english. Tradition in my family.
I found the rides here to be a little shorter, or at least feel shorter. After the Mansion, we wandered through toon town and tomorrow land. Unfortunately, because of things like energy conservation and renovations, both Space Mountain and Star Tours were closed. SOOOOO LAME. But we managed to hit a few of the other attractions. Took our tour of Splash Mountain, went back to Big Thunder and used our vouchers for that. Rode the Monsters Inc. Ride, and Pooh's Hunny Hunt. Lines after that first hour or so got to be ridiculous. Two, three hours, was the norm. That was pretty much it as far as rides went. There were a half dozen or so more that I wanted to try, but we simply ran out of time.
We did get to see the easter parade. Because easter is still going on in DisneyLand. Until the end of June. Yeah, I don't get it either. But it made for a lovely parade. Some of which I recorded, most of which I snapped pictures of. Most interesting of that was the people that had obviously been to Disney so many times they danced along with the entire parade.
Had dinner at the Blue Bayou restaurant. First time ever. Understandably so, as it was very expensive. Spent about $25 for just me. But it was an experience that I needed to have, and I have been craving creole or gumbo pretty much the entire time I've been here. It was delicious. I bought a few more souvenirs and I think I'm pretty much done with that now.
We stuck it out to the end this time, and since Pirates was up finally, we got to ride it at the end. Mainly the same as in California, but I feel they may have cut it a little short. Last ride of the night was Thunder Mountain. It was great at night. Could see the volcano in the Mysterious Island part of Disney Sea erupting from the ride, and the park itself was lit up lovely.
I'm exhausted. Again. But had a great time. Better ending than last time, too. I think I need to work on staying hydrated and well fed while at parks and such. But that's it. Disney. I may or may not upload photos. I took some 200+ of them. Don't expect nearly that many on here though.
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