We woke up early again to make the most of it. Me, Chelsea, and Matt got the train to DisneySea. We went a slightly different way to avoid the massively long walk through Tokyo station that we had to do yesterday. We got there just before 9 but needed a Starbucks to keep us going. I got a sausage pie, which is sort of like an Aunty Annes pretzel dog. I also got a caramel frappecino. Chelsea got a McMuffin but Starbucks and a caramel frappecino too. Matt had a McMuffin and coffee too. We asked for it to go but they gave us a tray so we sat inside and ate it.
We then walked to Disney Train Station and used our Suicas to get the special Disney monorail to DisneySea as it was the other side of the park. We saw the back of all the Disney buildings which were just warehouses and that made it a bit less magical. The carriage had Mickey shaped windows and hand holds. Some of the trains were Disney themed but ours was just grey and pink. We got off the monorail and had a bit of a queue into the park which was forboding of our day. We went to Journey to the Center of the Earth and queued for about 2 hours whilst chatting nonsense to make the time go by. We got about 10 minutes from the end of the queue and then all the lights came on and an announcement came over the tanoy but it was in Japanese. The queue moved really quickly and we were ushered out of the ride. The Disney man explained there had been a system malfunction and gave us free fast passes as compensation.
We then queued up for Tower of Terror for another 2 hours and had a 30 second ride. We tried to buy more fast passes but the app wouldn’t let us. We then complained about all the ways Disney could have made money out of us, but didn’t. They could have let us queue on our phone for the rides and we could have gone off shopping or getting popcorn. We would have happily bought fast passes. There was only one ride in the two parks that you could buy a photo for. We also wanted a map when we got in, but they didn’t give us one. We didn’t even get WiFi. In the Tower of Terror we got in a lift that went back really fast and up really fast and dropped you. Matt said you went up and back more at the one in Florida. We were a bit disapointed after that. We brought our popcorn bucket from yesterday with us but the queues were miles long so that made us even more depressed. They also had disgusting flavours like garlic shrimp or soy sauce and butter.
We went to lunch in Mermaid Lagoon which had lots of kiddy rides in and was meant to be under the sea Little Mermaid themed. Lunch had long queues but they moved fairly quickly. We sent Chelsea to find a table and me and Matt queued up to get our pizzas, chips, and coke. Disney only seems to do fast food like that, or really posh disgusting meals. Lunch was nice at least. Me and Matt got a Mickey shaped beef and mayo pizza. Chelsea got a sausage pizza. The coke cups are really weird as they’re full to the brim with ice, but you don’t get a straw, rather a flap that you pull back and sip out of, but can’t get any coke because the ice is in the way.
We saw that Journey to the center of the Earth was back open so went all the way back there and used our fast passes to skip the queue, which was already at 1 hour when it had only just opened. We felt like royalty walking past all those suckers. There was still a bit of a queue at the end but we got in our vehicle and went off on our journey. There were lots of pretty glowing creatures. Some dinosaur things that breathed real-life fire and scorched my arm hairs. Then we did one steep drop and we were done, which was a bit quick for how much hassle it was.
Matt didn’t want to stay the whole day so we decided on one last ride to do together, Indiana Jones. It was another 2 hour plus queue and we were all flagging. Once we got in the queue, Chelsea decided she needed a wee so had to sneak out and back in again. On her way back she saw a little boy with an Indiana Jones t-shirt, who had a birthday wristband. The Disney worker measured him but he was an inch too short to go on the ride. We were all sad after that. Queuing for the ride was long, but the set was really cool. We went in an ancient pyramid and looked at some scenes that looked like Indie’s desk with loads of notes and drawings about the artifacts he was going to find. Chelsea even found a hidden Mickey which are scattered throughout the park but this was the first one we had seen. We got on a Willys Jeep sort of thing which allowed us to sit together this time rather than leaving Matt by himself. My favourite part was the dart wall which made it seem like darts were being thrown at us as we drove passed so we ducked. Chelsea’s favourite part was when a boulder was rolling towards us and then the floor opened up and we were whisked away to end the ride. We all thought that Indiana talking in Japanese was a bit weird but also funny. We were waiting for the famous soundtrack to play and then it did near the end which made the whole ride really! It just about redeemed the day.
Matt went off home and we went to find some popcorn. I was taking Chelsea to get some caramel but she stopped at the milk chocolate instead. The popcorn lady tried her best to ask us if we wanted the bucket half full or full but we don’t speak Japanese. She eventually showed us on the bucket and we got it. I told Chelsea it was 800 yen for a refill but it was actually 600, so that confused the poor lady even more when she got handed too much change. We eventually figured it out and got our popcorn.
We passed where we wanted for dinner and saw that you needed to make a reservation on the app so I did that. Then we had a little wander and sat by a Mickey statue to kill some time. I didn’t really fancy one of their burgers today so I had Mickey shaped chicken nuggets the same as Chelsea. We sat outside by the candle light all romantic and couldn’t be grumpy anymore.
After dinner, Chelsea wanted to go to a Duffy shop but you needed a reservation, but you couldn’t get a reservation, so that made us a bit grumpy again.
Then we wandered over to a Steamboat Mickey shop but saw that a show was happening on the main lake. Chelsea tried to get in a VIP section and a security guard nearly knocked her out. We then found a poor people section for us and stood and watched the show which was amazing. They had Frozen, Tangled, The Little Mermaid, Moana, Aladin, and Coco. It had lights and fireworks. But then they cancelled the proper fireworks because of weather conditions. We think they’re just too cheap and have never had fireworks.
We were pretty done after the show, so I sat on a wall and let Chelsea go to a few shops. Then we did the shops at the exit and I got an Indiana Jones diecast car and Chelsea got a bubble wand. We sat at the entrance globe taking in one last breath of Disney, and a few bubbles because Chelsea kept doing it in front of her face, then walked to get the train.
We saw all of the Disney hotels on our walk back and made us wish we could stay.
