Tokyo Disneyland

We had the most amazing time at Disneyland! It was both our first time to go to a Disneyland. The weather was perfect, nice and warm but we could still find alot of shade to hide from the heat and the sun! We took the train to Maihara train station, which is actually in Chiba and took us about an hour to get there! When we got there we hadn't decided whether we wanted to go to Disneyland or Disneysea. We eneded up choosing Disneyland as our first experience! We thought that we would be able to buy a ticket that would let us in to both but you have to buy separately (so you have to pay twice basically!) to get into each park.

Everything was so pleasing to the eye inside Disneyland!!!! Ow, also you will notice in the photos they had Halloween decorations up EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

He is a good example... these were the only vending machines we saw ALL day... and they were robots!!! We went to Toon Town, which is were all the characters house are, it was so cool and pretty surreal to be honest!!! You could walk through some of the houses and there were characters walking round to have your photo taken with... but actually there was always a crowd around them, so we didn't really manage to get close to them. We decided to go on the small rollercoaster they had there as there was no queue! It was a good first roller coaster to get back into the swing of things!

Goofey's House

Daisy Duck's House

Chip and Dale's Treehouse.

We had our picture taken outside Mickey Mouse's House!

Minnie Mouse's House (notice the scare crow in the front of the garden)

We walked up the Splash Mountain which was the log flume ride, we both wanted to go on it but there was a 50min waiting time, so I asked Fran if he wanted to wait that long, and he said that was ok, and we went and queued up... 30mins later I found out Fran thought I had said 15 mins not 50 mins! Anyway, the ride was A-MAZING! I think maybe it took about 8 mins (ish) and there were a up and downs but the good thing was it was like being in a disney film!!! There were characters and a little play the whole way round the ride. It started off with all these bunnies and animals all happy and dancing and well... "disney-like" and then just before we went down the massive drop (see photo above) it all turned very dark, and the bunnies were in trouble, like the foxes had them and stuff, and then... yes we went down the drop! Pretty cool, then just before the ride ended there is a chorus of "zip-a-dee-doo-dah" plays and all the animals are happy dancing and singing again... we kind of decided that it's based around drugs maybe, and imagine that taking acid would give you the same effect... extreme highs and lows. But it's strange to think of disney like that... so who knows!

Then we went and watch the Jubilation street Parade, it was so magical... I loved it!!! Fran video-ed it so I will posting it as soon as we figure out HOW to put it on to the internet (it's too long for flickr/youtube etc)

Here's me and Fran outside Cinderella's castle, there was a queue forming and there was a lady taking pictures of everybody here!

We went on Big Thunder Mountain ride, Space Mountain (which was AMAZING) and watched Captain EO which was a 3D movie starring Micheal Jackson.

Then it was time for the DisneyLand Electrical Lights Parade. Which was also AMAZING!

After the parade we went on some of the rides, and at 9:30pm (when the park was shutting at 10pm) we legged it from one side of the park to the other to ride the Space Mountain roller coaster again... we thought if we ran we would just manage to ride it one last time... we ended up going on it 4 times that day!!! It was amazing. It was like a really fast roller coaster with lots of turns in a big pitch black room that had tiny lights all over so it felt like you were traveling through space! It was truly amazing, and at the end you go into this tunnel were there are lights flying past you at a high speed so it feels like you are going super fast, and then it suddenly stops!!! Incredible!!!

This was a huge day for me... pushing myself to cope with the queues, the rides and the amount of people... I certainly faces some of my ultimate fears, and I feel I have overcome them which just feels amazing! I couldn't of done this a couple of months ago, and yet everyday I feel like I am closer to being "me" again! It's good!!!

Anyway, we are looking forward to going back to DisneySea next... so watch this space :-D