Disneyrando!

Friday was Kenmin no Hi (Prefectural Day) in Gunma, so there were no classes. I refused to sit at my desk with nothing to do, so I nenkyu-ed that shit up in here and headed to Disneyrando with Shindy! It was also Tochigi and Tokyo’s (I think?) Kenmin no Hi, and tickets were a bit cheaper for our three prefectures, so Shindy and I headed out early to make the most of the crowded day there. When I say early, I mean motherfucking EARLY. Cindy and I both got up at 4 in the bloody morning, froze our asses off riding to the station, took the first trains into Ota, and met up on the comfy Ryomo train. It being Cindy and I, we of course used the day as an excuse to eat horrible amounts of complete SHIT! We started off the day with coffee, tea, onigiri, melon pan, more coffee, and a vitamin drink (um, muy necessito when waking up at 4 in the morning).

Despite train drama (hashitteyuke!), we got there earlier than most people and went right onto Splash Mountain, followed by The Haunted Mansion (it is the Nighmare Before Christmas Haunted Mansion, and Japanese people want to have mad mad sex with Nightmare Before Christmas, so we went early to make sure we didn’t wait for like four hours for it).

Even though we were really tired and weird all day long, it was sooooo fun! The Halloween decorations were really cute. It was my first Disneyland Halloween, so it was cool to see. Whenever we needed some non-caffeine-related waking up, we’d just go on Tokyo’s KICK-ASS Space Mountain which is so ridiculously fast. It’s fucking great! I wanted to stay on it all day long.

And of course Cindy and I devoured all of Disneyland’s snacks. Um, churros, much? Not to mention all kinds of other crap. Good times!

Sadly one of the funnest things to do at Tokyo Disneyland is to laugh at how ridiculous Japanese people are when they are there. I swear they don’t even go for the rides, as they spend all day either in line for popcorn (there are multiple kinds of special popcorn, and they have to try all of them), in line for turkey legs (there was the MOST RIDICULOUS line for these….if turkey is this popular, why do they not sell it here?), or shopping for omiyage (gifts) for their friends and family back home. Not only do they spend more money than any sane person should, but they don’t have any time to do anything else! So after a while Cindy and I stopped taking pictures of decorations and started taking pictures of Japanese people being crazy. We are good JETs! Hahahaha.

We met up with Helen, Hayley, Chau and Abby (JETs) for dinner, then we headed home (with a new bucket of coconut popcorn for the ride home, of course).

Oh! I forgot…so like I was one of five gaijin there the entire day? What the hell? I would expect more to be there. I seriously got more gaijin stares at Disneyland than I do in Gunma. One reason may be because I am so much taller than Cindy that it looks like I am just talking to myself whenever I am walking and talking to her. They also gave her a million “You’re Asian, why would you be speaking English?” looks, which got on my nerves. Meh! Hehehehe.

Anyway, we trained it back home and took the last train home. We are hardcore Disney bitches for taking the first AND last train, I say. Finally, after being awake for 21 hours with three hours of sleep, I slept for 12 hours in the best coma I have ever been in.

Now I just gots to wait for Christmas decoration time and we’re going to Disney Sea! Woot! (Cindy, that “woot” was dedicated to you)