Tokyo Disney!

The day after Valentine’s Day, Chris and his girlfriend Yoko, invited us to go to Tokyo Disney with them. Brad and I haven’t been to any Disney parks since we were little so we were really excited to go. It’s amazing the effect that Disney has on the culture here. You can pretty much go anywhere and see children and adults alike with something Disney on them, whether it be a keychain, a character doodad on their cellphone (I don’t know how to explain it but pretty much everyone here has a keychain thing with different characters/jewels/symbols hanging off their cell phone), shirts, hats etc. And when you’re in Disney the craziness just intensifies. You can’t help but get caught up in the excitement either! It seems like everyone at Disney had some sort of Disney hat on featuring different characters like the ones that Brad and Chris are wearing here:

On the train after Disney, EVERYBODY had at least one bag.

When we first got into the park we got a fast pass to ride the new Monster’s Inc. ride. This allows us to have a reserved time to go to the ride so we don’t have to wait in line. You can get a fast pass ticket to any ride about every 2 hours…as long as they still have times available. When we got our fast pass to Monsters Inc at 11, our reserved time was already for 7:30! Then we went to check out the Toy Story and Space Mountain ride. Unfortunately it started to rain soon thereafter but besides some of the bigger rides closing down from the rain we still got to do the majority of what we wanted to do. 

Waiting in line in the rain. 

There were different flavored popcorn machines throughout the park. This one was my favorite because I love honey and Pooh is one of my favorite characters! You could also buy a special popcorn buckets to put around your neck in your favorite Disney character design. 

Up (or Grandpa Carl's Flying House, as its known in Japan) is one of our favorite Disney movies. 

Turkey is almost nonexistent in Japan. Yoko said one of the only places she knows of to get it is at Disneyland. So...here's Brad enjoying a turkey leg! :)

 

Brad and I are really excited to try the other Disney park called Disney Sea and to also go back to the Disneyland park when it’s a little warmer out.