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Published: June 25th 2013
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I had yesterday off in a RARE shift swap with the head teacher, who needed a Thursday worked for him at the end of August, so I managed to get a day off with Rani, who I never have similar off days with. We decided to make the most of this and go to Tokyo Disneyland together - she hadn't been there yet, and I hadn't been there when it wasn't cold outside! We got up early and made our way out to the bay on the crowded, crowded trains (I'm continually glad I don't have to deal with that in the mornings) and ended up getting a really great day for it, weather-wise, particularly since today is raining and blech.
Our first order of business was buying ears, because we were determined to wear the ears all day when we took pictures everywhere. She got Minnie, and I got wizard Mickey. Then we were ready to hit the park! There were a lot of characters out and a lot of kids there - I don't know why they weren't in school, haha, but oh well. We saw some really unusual characters, like from Robin Hood! (I was super excited
about those), and we got a few fastpasses including the NEWly improved Star Tours ride! (That's right, Star Tours is in Tokyo Disneyland which is set up almost exactly like Magic Kingdom down in Florida)
We did all the rides we wanted to: Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, Star Tours, Peter Pan, Pirates, Big Thunder Mountain, although we couldn't do Space Mountain because it was closed for repairs. Booo. And we also did a canoe ride that my family has never done before, where you sit in canoes with other guests and a guide has you paddle the canoe around the Adventureland/Frontierland lake. It was really fun - our guide was super cute, and our canoe could NOT get the timing right, so we all started saying "ICHI, NI, ICHI, NI (one, two, one, two)" as a group to get it working.
We did lunch at the place Wes and Chandra showed me, the Tokyo exclusive "Queen of Hearts Banquet Hall" which was annoying only because we got stuck behind a slew of really slow, horrible people in line. Awful!! We were cranky by that time anyway so it didn't work well for us, haha. But we ate a
TON of popcorn - Tokyo Disney has this thing where there are tons of different kinds of popcorn all over the park with different flavors, so we bought a Mickey ears bucket and refilled it with lots of different flavors. It was great! We did a lot of eating.
We also saw the electric parade by chance as we were coming off Splash Mountain, so that was neat. All in all, we couldn't have asked for a better day for it. We were exhausted by the end and my feet were killing me, but we had so much fun and I'm so glad we got to do something together!!
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