In the land of magical dreams....

We went to Tokyo disney this weekend.

First, everyone wears mickey ears there. Everyone. Old ladies, 1 yearolds, teenagers. All of them. Second, they probably have 50 different kinds of ears you can wear, from just about every theme or moive they have. I personally chose the Jack Sparrow ears. That's all I have to say on that.

It's basically the same as Disney in the US. A few different rides, fish on half the menu, churros everywhere for some reason, oh and 40,000 japanese teenagers. We went on a weekend though. some of the rides I think were more funny because they had japanese voices to them. Buzz Lightyear, check. Roger Rabbit, check. Piglet, check. Micky Mouse, big check. It's strange knowing the original voices and then hearing the japanese version, you can't prepare yourself for it.

Even though we were far too old for most of the rides we went on, that didn't stop us from having a good time. It got cold at night, but not so bad that we wanted to leave. The lines averaged maybe 90 minutes of wait time, even if they said more. Fast passes were a great help and we got to do just about all the rides we wanted. Though by the time we decided we could go on splash mountain it was going to be too cold to get wet. They girls even managed to get me to go on 2 roller coasters, so .... yeah for that.

One thing that was amazingly strange, the sponsership. Maybe Disney does this in the US and I don't remember, but it was in odd places. Pirates of the Carribean was sponsered by Kirin, a beverage company, but best know for its beer. The parades even had the final float dedicated to the sponser. It was odd, I've never seen a Disney-like parade that had a sponser float. Public parades for events or holidays, yes. It all just struck me as odd.

Pictures are up on the site http://picasaweb.google.com/heman8400/TokyoDisney take a gander if you desire.

Drinking on a Sunday Morning.

http://japaneats.blogspot.com/2008/03/nihonshu-in-morning.html

We went to a drinking festival yesterday. Met up with some friends of the friends of our friend. Yeah, that's right, it was still fun because everybody was drinking and having a good time. We all share the sake and the food, and it was fun to meet up with new people. Even if they were making fun of me for being a wife and not speaking japanese.


I've got a few pictures of the event, but our friend Fiona had a better camera and took most of the group shots, so I'm going to get them from her. Once I have that, and I figure out the location of the festival (we took 2, 45 min buses to get there, so I only have a general idea of where it was) I'll post them.

We're going to disney on monday, and spending the weekend in kurihama with lyndsi. Maybe we'll do some karaoke or go see the blossoms in tokyo. All I know is that I'm going to miss the first games of the NCAA tourney. KU got its number 1 seed by beating texas a few hours ago, but I couldn't watch that one either (3am here when it started). Wisconsin is in the same bracket, so if it comes down to those two I'm going to have to root for KU. Marquette is in the south bracket so I'll be able to root for them for a while.