On Friday we had planned to head to Tokyo Disneyland! Noboru had taken the day off work. We pulled Branden from school for the day. The teachers knew we were going there as his birthday present and for Halloween, so we were killing 2 birds with 1 stone by going there. We arrived at the park at 8:30 am, exactly when it opened. Disneyland during Golden week and yes we've been there for that. Is busy sure. But Tokyo Disneyland for the month of October for Halloween is nuts! Most rides were a wait between, 25 minutes to 90 minutes! So it varied. Last year when we went for Halloween we waited in line for the Haunted Mansion ride for over 2 hours long!!! So this time we were smart and hit that ride first thing in the morning! Good thing because it was impossible to ride it later! We rode pretty much everything. From the Go-go gadget coaster to the Pooh Honey Hunt, Haunted Mansion, everything really. We stayed from the beginning to the very end. Many rides we rode twice. Like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I'm glad we went on a weekday versus a weekend.
The decorations were sooo cool! As always, Disneyland during Halloween season is so much fun! : )
Forget "Where's Waldo", do you guys see Noboru in the background smoking a cigarette? This guy loves smoking cigarettes. I hate it. And every smoking section we saw at Disneyland , he made a B-line for and smoked himself to an oblivion! Sheesh that guy! Ha ha ha!Meanwhile the boys and I sat off some place in a smoke-free zone. Ha ha ha! We have 3 popcorn buckets for Disneyland. Though we only brought 2 with us. We filled up the Chip and Dale one and the Buzz-lightyear one with caramel popcorn. And later filled one with normal salt popcorn.
Remember when I picked these up a few weeks back at Kaldi Coffee? Like were dirt cheap like 399 yen each. Knowing full and well how all kids at Disneyland want glowing stuff at Disneyland once it gets dark. They were a total hit! They flickered orange in the pumpkins. Everyone was pointing at these little martian type lights bobbling on the boys heads! Kids were saying they wanted them. One mom standing in line with us, asked which shop sold them in Disneyland. I told her they weren't beind sold at Disneyland. And told her to try Kaldi and they were inexpensive. Which didn't help her much with being at Disneyland, I know.
Even though we don't live in the US and they can't go trick or treating and stuff. At least they got to celebrate Halloween at Disneyland. There were employees walking around in all black and carrying a pumpkin and if you went up to them and said "trick or treat" they would give you some candy (of course they had Disneyland name tags on, lol).
The buffet restaurant was so good. They had all sorts of good things. We went there for dinner. For lunch, the 4 of us, went and had lunch at Toon town and had chicken sandwiches and french fries. We also had a small snack in the middle of the day, 2 small orders of nachos with cheese at the Pecos Bill food stand. Ha ha ha.This pic is of our dessert, we had after dinner at the all you can eat buffet. It was pumpkin pie. It was really good. I had wondered since it had a crust on top as well, could this have been a pumpkin tart or something else? Hmm, but the name tag above it read pumpkin pie. Anyhow it was great! They also had pumpkin mochi. Pumpkin everything you could possibly imagine for dessert it was sorta funny! LOL. But really good! Totally felt like Halloween after all that! : )
This picture should be called "sometimes the Japanese don't think outside the box"...You all know the movie Cars is the newest movie that is out by Disney Pixar, right now. It's popular. It's coming out in video stores in Japan first week of November. Anyway, the main character's name is Lightning Mc Queen (sp?) This is him in the pic with Branden. Anyway, he's wildly popular in the US and Japan. And the line to take a pic with this car was like miles long and wrapped around 1 ride and 1 restaurant at Disneyland! So we didn't want to wait in line at the time, so we checked back again and again a few more times during the day. Finally night had come. The line was still so long. Here's the problem. The Japanese wanted a pic of the Car's eyes showing, just the eyes of the car and the front grill part of the car. In my opinion you can't see too much of the car that way, just the tip of the car iykwim. So while taking a pic of the front would have been nice, there were alternatives. Left side was out because you would have got the other kid in the pic as well as your own kid. However the right side was totally wide open and not even being utilized! Meanwhile I see that. Then I glance at the long line again. See the amazing possible pic opportunity on the right side of the car and suddenly just grab my son, go to the unused right side. And I snapped 3 pics! Got it...over and done! Geeze that was quick! I got a pic of the entire side of the car with the #95 on it and everything. The tires that say...Light-year instead of Good-Year, lol. And we can even see the eyes from the front still. And I didn't have to wait in line at all! After we left, Japanese families who were watching started shuffling their kids to that side as well and took their pics there instead of waiting in the super long 30 minute line! Sometimes it's the foreign mom over here in Japan, that may see things a bit differently, this can actually be to our benefit....we *can* see outside the box! Ha ha ha!That's about it...oh yeah one more thing. Talk about a rite of passage, Branden is now tall enough to ride Splash Mountain! He rode that twice. Noboru rode it once and I rode it twice, once with Branden and once by myself! : )
We left Disneyland at 10:30 pm probably didn't even get into the car until 11:00 pm. We got home at 12:30 am! So late! Can you believe it? We unloaded the car. Put the boys into their PJ's and got ourselves in our PJ's and went to sleep immediately! I didn't even turn the computer on Friday at all. Which is why I'm typing this out to myself right now, this Saturday morning. Before the boys wake up, ha ha ha! : )
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