Tokyo - Disneyland Part 1

One week after we got back from Beijing, we had one week and then we took of for Tokyo. Our Anniversary was Tuesday, April 3. Daniel had the 4th off for Qingming Jie - Tomb sweeping day.

Daniel promised that if I said yes to moving to China, we could go to Tokyo for the cherry blossoms. It's something I never thought would happen. We were there for three days.

Don't judge me. We spent two days in Disneyland and one day seeing the blossoms. We didn't see much else. But that's all we went for. And I loved it. 

Pictures from Disneyland.

It's a pretty big park, but not as full of things to do there. We still didn't get it all done because the lines were so. dang. long. Like 2 1/2 hours each. Ick. And the fastpass tickets were all claimed by 12 or so everyday. It's going to make Anaheim seem empty next time I go.

There was a little family there trying to have their kids turn around. When the 3 year old girl turned around she smiled and did the peace sign. They are trained from an early age. Silly.

We asked about the peace sign once and we were told that they do it because they don't know what else to do with their hands. How about hold them at your side?

Instead of Main Street U.S.A., they have the World Bazaar. It's covered. 

 I didn't recognize what they were playing.

 The castle. It was amazing. Better than any other I've seen.

Flowers everywhere.

 Easter decoration. The eggs were so cute.

 Castle tower.

 Mosaics inside the castle - when you walk under it.

 King Louie from Jungle Book.

 More flowers.

 The back side of the castle.

Tulips. The reason we got married in April. I had to have tulips in my wedding pictures. And I did.

 

Both of us. 

 

The castle was huge and had so many details. A special post is coming up about that. 

 Some of the detail.

Easter decor. It was interesting to see Easter there. Especially since it is a Christian holiday, and Japan is not Christian. But then, it was all the secular parts of it.

 Belle. She was walking and I'm pretty sure she was not allowed to stop. And no, the princess and "real" people were not Asian. They were "imported" westerners.

 Everything was so green and luscious.

 Everyone else was crouching down too.

 We share a birthday, Disneyland Tokyo and I. It was opened in 1983. You could not pay me to be there next year when they celebrate 30 years.

It was soooooooooooooooooo crowded. The parade route was already claimed and people sitting there up to 3 hours before each parade. blerg.

But I loved it. We had a good time.

Next I'll post about the weirdos we saw. Wow.