Every Special Moment in my Life~

Thursday, June 08, 2006,10:26:00 AM

The day in Tokyo Disneyland...

We reached Tokyo Disneyland at about 9.30am... The place opens at 9am... Akiko rushed to buy the tickets for us and when we were going in, I saw a familiar face and the person beside him was wearing a "NUS Business School" jacket... ooh.. so coincidental.. but we didnt go over and ask cause they were queueing up for tickets while we were queueing up to go in...

See our excited faces.. haha...
But once we entered, I saw something that shocked me

The Cinderella's castle was under renovation! How can this be.. :(
Well...
there was a Hawaiian dance performance near the entrance.. cause the theme for that month was Lilo & Stitch.. we watched for a while before proceeding to play! we stayed together in a group of 14.... we tried all the mountain thingy... Thunder Mountain (something like that), Splash Mountain, and Space Mountain.. haha.. well, it was the first time ever that i sat on a roller coaster.. I had never sat on a roller coaster before cause I'm super afraid of heights.. the Thunder something Mountain was alright cause it was not high.. It's just a lot of turning around cause it's supposed to be a runaway train.. the Splash Mountain was alright also cause it went down so fast, I didnt have time to be scared.. the Space Mountain was really quite scary as it was pitch dark inside! and it kept on turning to my side that I strained so much to make sure I don't fall off.. and I think I twisted my neck in the process..haha.. but it was the SpaceJet that make me nearly cried.. cause it was high up there.. Hopefully I didnt scared off the rest..cause I think I did look quite terrified...whoops..
We watched 2 parades.. one in the day.. the other one at night..

Mickey Mouse was the first on the day parade... singing and dancing on his float.. He was so cute!!! The atmosphere was quite good as people were clapping along..
Then there were Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and the whole Disney gang, the princesses and their princes... Toy Story gang..

and Peter Pan! with Wendy...
and many many more, ending with Minnie Mouse as a Fairy Godmother on the same float as Cinderella and her Prince Charming..

The Prince Charming with the glass slipper for the night parade... all the floats were lighted up beautifully for the night parade.. It was really pretty...
There was another parade in the afternoon which was based on the Lilo & Stitch theme but we were busy playing, so we didnt stop to watch...

This is what we had for dinner.. fastfood where all the burgers are Mickey Mouse -shaped.. cute! This was Teriyaki Chicken..

We went canoeing also.. near the Tom Sawyer Island.. It was very fun..and our instructor was very cute! He couldnt speak much English, so he spoke in Japanese.. a whole bunch of things, and we just stared at him.. then he said "This is your paddle", while showing us how to hold the paddle.. then he said "One, Two, One, Two".. while showing us the motion.. and it was "Let's Go!"..hahah.. along the way, he couldnt really explain the things that we see around us also.. so we paddle on.. hehe..

After much playing, we went around taking pictures..

This is Mickey's car..outside his house.. we didnt go in to meet Mickey cause there were just too many people! we had to wait for 40 minutes if we wanted to go in.. (outside every attraction, there is a signboard letting people know how long they have to wait from that point of the queue..)

Along the way, we saw some Disney characters running around..

We saw Brer Rabbit and the wolf.. I went to approach the wolf for a picture but his back was facing me.. and since he was quite tall, he turned and bumped into me cause he couldnt see me under his long spout..haha.. then he pretended to not see me and looked above my head.. @_@
That's why we were laughin like that in the pic...

We also took picture with Brer Rabbit which was very cute! and would give you a warm hug (the person inside must be feeling quite warm and stuffy..hehe) and shake your hand..
We also saw the 7 dwarfs.. but they were all so busy and we only took picture with Grumpy... >_<>

I went over again to ask for a picture with Peter Pan... We weren't arguing though it looked like we were in this picture.. I think they were just glad to have people talking in English with them.. cause most of the people there spoke Japanese.. cause they were mainly Japanese.. So when I asked "Can we take a picture?", Peter Pan said "Sure!"
Then Peter Pan said that my t shirt was very colourful.. haha.. and Wendy said I had a hat that looked like Peter Pan's..(see the small pink Minnie Hat that I had on my head.. It's a hair clip..)
Well, Peter Pan said mine was pink and his was red... red?! (If you have not noticed, Peter Pan is green from top to toe..)
So, I told Peter Pan that his hat is green, not red.. haha.. and he said "yea.. but my feather is red.." Well, true...
And at that moment, my other friends were like "ahem... take picture..ahem.."
So we took a pic..

It was supposed to be a group picture with them.. but well.. They got a group pic after that..hehe...

(seems like I told nearly everyone about me talking to Peter Pan already..haha... and my friend said "yea right.. as if it's the real Peter Pan.." @_@)

We didnt get to see the fireworks though cause it was too foggy..It was getting warm in the day.. but then it rained on and off.. so, at night it was too foggy to see anything, so it was cancelled... So we went shopping instead at the World Bazaar area.. There were so many people buying things, as if the things were very cheap.. it's not..
I looked for quite a long time cause I couldnt decide whether to buy or not.. cause everything seemed so nice.. but expensive! then i kept thinking this might be my only time here ever!
We left the place at around 9.30pm... The closing time is 9pm.. but people just didnt not seem to want to leave this Magical Land..
Reached the hotel around 11pm (?).. and I fell asleep the moment i dropped on the bed.. woke up to bath and continued sleeping til the next day! It was the last night, and everyone played while I went to LaLaLand.. Guess I used up too much energy in the day.. being very hyper and all.. haha... wonderful experience...
Oh.. we especially loved the Winnie the Pooh ride... The mechanism was so cool.. how the hunny pots moved about... it's really very nice!
The "It's a small world" ride was a very happy ride.. all the dolls smiling, singin and dancing...
and i liked the Haunted Mansion also.. the funny thing was when we entered the mansion, there was this voice that told us a story (maybe about the owner of the mansion,..or how we are trapped inside..or something).. but we couldnt understand a single thing! cause it was all in Japanese! So we weren't scared at all.. lolz...then the room went down and you could see the pictures growing longer.. quite cool.. and we sat on chairs that brought us around the house.. cool mechanism again... got corpse bride inside somemore.. (^_^)

we played a lot of things.. but when i checked the map, there were many rides that we did not take also.. and we only went to Disneyland.. there is Disneysea somemore.. next time ;)

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