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Over the winter break Chris and I went went off to a wonderful place called Tokyo and more importantly, Tokyo Disneyland. After our first day in Tokyo was spent at an anime museum, we went off to the most magical place in all of Japan, Tokyo Disneyland. Our Journey was started by taking the train from our hotel (tiny tiny room) to the Tokyo Disney train station. They had their very own train statino complete with the Zip-a-dee-do-da song when trains arrived and left the station. We left the station to find an insane amount of people everywhere. The train dropped us off near the biggest Disney Store in all of Japan but we decided to visit it after the day was done at our first park.

Tokyo Disney consists of two parks and a bunch of hotels. The first park is basically a remake of the Disneyland in California and the second is a new park that is unique to Tokyo Disney. It celebrates all things about the sea and is called Disney Sea. The first place we decided to head off to was Disneyland. This was mostly due to me buying tickets a long time before heading to the park. It was a good choice because this was a magic day. This was also the first time that Christina had ever been to a Disney park. I’m so happy that we got to go.

Disneyland is such an amazing place. From the moment that we walked into the park I had that feeling of being a little kid. I love that feeling. I always have nothing but good memories when I step foot inside this park. As we walked in I looked at Christina and all I saw was her smiling. It’s so wonderful to see her smiling. Her eyes were lit up and then we saw the famous flowers arranged in the shape of Mickey Mouse. Past that was the World’s Market which is the same as MainStreet USA in the California Disneyland. It was just amazing to me to see such a great place rebuilt for the Japanese market. This Disneyland had an even grander scale to it. Finally off in the distance was saw the castle with the statue of Walt Disney and Mickey holding hands. I’m pretty sure at this point I hugged Chris. If it had just ended here I would have been happy. Every penny would have been worth it just because Chris and I were happy. Instead, we had the most amazing day ahead of us. It was a day filled with joy and an amazing amount of good food. The first thing we had to decide was what ride to wait in line for first. We opted for Splash mountain.

We looked at the map and headed off towards the cartoonish mountain in the distance. We walked over to find that the line was going to be about 4 hours in waiting time. We decided, no, we don’t want that this badly. Instead, Disney does something amazing. You can get a pass that will allow you to return at a certain time and ride the ride then. We got passes for 9:00PM. This was not by choice by the way. This was just what they gave us. In my mind I was thinking that this would be a good way to end the day. The day still had to continue though. We ended up starting at Pirates of the Caribbean. The wait was a manageable 40 minutes. This was one of the shortest waits at the park. It didn’t matter though. We were having a wonderful time with one another. We waited and I could feel the excitement build as we got closer to the boats and could hear the music from the cafe that was built in the front of the line. As we got in the boat and it set off, we were whisked into a world of fantasy. I looked at Chris who was smiling, I was happy.

After the wonderful ride that was Pirates of the Caribbean, we were quite hungry. Luckily Chris had plotted where all the food was on our map. We headed straight for the turkey leg stand. This was the best sight I had seen in Disneyland. As a side note, we don’t eat that much meat here so the turkey legs were a welcome change to our diet. I’m sure the grins on our faces could have been seen as far away as Tomorrowland. This was the first of many amazing foods that we had this day. It was also the first of a couple times eating turkey legs that day as well. Other foods that we had and in no particular order were popcorn with flavors such as curry, strawberry, honey, normal and others, we also had many uniquely Japanese foods like steamed buns in the the shape of Mickey Mouse’s head. The food in general was, to put it simply, amazing. That said, this wasn’t the best part of Disneyland. The best part was just seeing everyone there so happy.

A lot of the rides in Disneyland were dressed up for the holiday season with snowflakes and other things. Its a small world was dressed up in a really cute way. It had snowflakes inside and out. This was actually the first time that I had the chance to come to a Disney park in December so for me this was a first to experience this unique decoration. There was one other ride that was just simply astounding in the way they dressed it up. This was The Haunted Mansion. The ride is usually just a haunted house with loads of special effects but from October to December they dress it up too be Nightmare Before Christmas themed. The inside and outside are completely overhauled.

The way that they do the decoration is simply amazing. They make the outside of the mansion to look like a pumpkin patch with various decorations that are Christmas themed but with a Halloween twist. There is even a scarecrow made out to look like Santa Clause. The roof has a ghostly sleigh as well as holiday wreaths that are alive. Its quite simply amazing. The inside is just as amazing. The inside is decorated and completely changed to the theme of The Nightmare Before Christmas. There are floating presents as well as ghoulish children playing. As The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies, this is always a treat for me. Chris couldn’t stop talking pictures. It was quite amusing for the entire time. It let us do something since she and I were waiting for an hour to get in. We even ate turkey legs in the line.

Still, this day had to come to an end. We had to move on and head on back for our sleep and rest. The next day was going to be just as big as this day. I sometimes wish though that we could go back and have another great day at Disneyland.

-Kyle