The plane ride was long and uneventful. Even though it was day time, the adults spent most of the time asleep (we didn't sleep the night before) and the kids played the DS and iPods. My dad splurged on one of the media players for AUD 15 and the 3 kids took it in turns to watch assorted shows on it.
We arrived last nite at about 6.50-ish local time. And by the time we cleared customs n arrived outside. Got our japan rail pass and then spent 10 mins staring at the actual train ticket machines trying to figure out which buttons to press!
Our train ride from the airport spanned 3 train exchanges, 2 different train passes and when we arrived at our hotel destination near Disneyland, it was almost 10.15!!
An interesting experience to say the least but not unebjoyable.
Checked in and had dinner at a nearby family western restaurant as everything else was closed. It was now past 10.30 and we were starving. The weather was a nice cooling wind and after running about sometimes towing luggage, other times carrying Kaitlyn, I had worked up a sweat for some beer! Here's my dad with our frothy goodness.
The beer was absolutely yummy and slid down my throat do easily that I was giggling incontrolloby!! Food was yummy. Tried escargot for the first time, French food in japan makes sense?! By the time food arrived, we were so hungry we pounced before I remembered to take pictures, so this was taken halfway!
I was so tired by the time we got to the hotel and got all 3 kids settled that I forgot to take pictures of the room. Plopped into the bed and fell asleep in my yutaka around 1.30 am.
I'm filling this blog up as we line up for rides at Disneyland. We got into the train about 7.30 this morning. Luckily the rain had stopped and it was a nice cooling temp of 14-18 degrees celcius.
The train during peak hour is certainly scary. We were literally sardines in the tin can. And when we thought it was full too bursting, somehow we managed to get another 20 ppl on. They pushed their way inwards walking backwards into the carriage. My poor kaitlyn got squashed abit and only the bribery of toy shopping at the end of the day abated the ensuing tears.
We bought onigiri and pancakes at the convenience store at the train station and started our long long waiting game at the queues.
Disneyland opens at 9am. We started queueing to go in at about 8.15, already late as the crowd before us indicated.
The minute the gates opened, a surge of people poured in through the gates and ppl were literally running to get to the fastpast stations (to get express tickets for a predetermined time for selected popular rides, only 1 fastpast per person at any one time). We managed to get fast passes for monsters Inc for 1pm. And took this pic of Mike's car.
Then it was a run to Haunted Mansion. Scary in itself. But would have been scarier if we actually understood the Japanese storyline being narrated.
Which basically updates me to where I am now. 30 mins in for a 2 hr estimated queue for big thunder mountain ride.
2 hrs for a 10 minute ride? Oh wait I see the end of the queue. Might only take 45 mins!
That was fun. Not extremely scary that kaitlyn couldn't go, but thrilling enough not to be a kiddies ride!
Then on to country bear theatre to watch some bear animatronics.
On the way to the next show, we stopped by to get some curry popcorn, churros and drinks. We also came across these guys from UP!
There's so much more to record but lack of Internet access and time, our days starting early (about 6am) until past midnight and basically walking about the whole day does not leave much time for updating blogs!!
To be continued!!
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