After lunch, we continued through the park, aquatopia was a walk on. Headed to mysterious island, rode 20,000 leagues under the sea, thenwe headed for Journey to the centre of earth, another of the headliners, we waited 20 minutes. I was a little apprehensive about this one, as I am not a fan of drops, but I braved it, and in fact found it pretty mild.
Next up, was mermaid lagoon, this is an indoor area with rides aimed at little kids, but is extremely beautiful, it really took my breath away. Dd and I got separated in here from the boys and couldn't find them for a bit. Was funny to find two teenage boys and a grown man in the queue for the dropping jellyfish ride, which, while beautiful is extremely slow ride for small children, but hey, in the spirit of the Disney do-over, we had to ride everything.
We found goofy in here and I convinced the family to barge our way in for a family character photo, something that was definitely missing from our Florida trip. I handed my camera over to the handler, the result I will post over the weekend I promise, it's a great photo, but unfortunately the low light requires a super steady camera, so it's very blurry.
This was to be as good as it gets as far as character photos go, even though I begged them, told them it would save shopping for a mothers day present, they would not queue for another. A favourite saying of theirs, when anything is a bit over the top or cringeworthy - "so much cringe"
I just have to admit that my babies are past it!
Moving on, and I may be out of order, but we headed to Arabian coast and then raging spirits coaster, not a fan of coasters, I waited this out, but then braved up and rode Indiana Jones - have to say, I love, love, love this ride! The theming is amazing, would love to actually walk through at a slower pace and really see it all.
So we had done all the headliners and it was only mid afternoon, we slowly made our way back to the Mediterranean harbour and was actually a bit lost as to what to do, it was about 4 o clock - so we decided to have dinner, we found an Italian place and sat down to a massive plate of pasta.
After our early dinner we headed to the Venetian gondolas, and found them to be closed until 5:30 because of a wedding - we didn't see the bride, but how lovely to have a Venetian gondola ride on your wedding day at Tokyo Disneysea,!
We waited until 5:30 and then joined the queue, this seemed to be the longest we had waited all day, but once we were on, oh, how beautiful to be floating on the canals of faux Venice with a Japanese gondolier singing in Italian as the sun dipped low into the sky, casting beautiful light across everything.
We were still killing time until our fast pass return so we crossed into Fortress explorations and explored there. Then we found ourselves waiting the the Disneysea electric railway. The boys decided they wanted to buy something and they would meet us at Toy story - now they are 15, so I have no problem separating.
DH, DD and I got on the railway and then headed to Toy story - we were still a bit early for the fast pass and as we were walking past "the big band beat" was just about to start, it was getting cold and we didnt have to meet until 7:15, I didn't know what this show was or how long it went for, but I did know you normally have to enter a lottery to get in to see it.
We are bad, bad parents and we went in.
What is funny about this show is that it's all in English, a live big band, with trumpet and trombone etc doing all the swing hits, Chattanooga choo choo, is the only one I can think of right now. But there is a point where the host introduces the band, "and now let's give it up for our sax player,......" Etc, ..all in English - we were the only three people in the room of about 1000, that understood, try as we might, we couldn't get a round of applause going!!!
the show went for 30minutes and I was getting anxious that the boys would be worried, so hurried out as soon as it finished, we found them, and yes, they were understandably angry at us. I blamed Dad, Dad blamed DD, but really Mickey made us do it.
So, we utilised our fast pass and felt like royalty as we bypassed the queue. Toy story was fun, but there is no way I would queue longer than 40minutes for it, actually that goes for all of the rides. It was amazing to see the space that was allocated to queuing areas, I wouldn't like to be there when that was needed.
That said, I would happily spend a day and not ride anything!
By now, people were starting to gather for the night time spectacular of fantasmic, so we found a spot and waited too.
We hadn't seen this in Florida, so I was eager to see it. We found a spot and enjoyed the show. We watched what we thought was the finale, Mickey had slain the dragon, and then we hotfooted it out of the park - hoping to avoid a rush for the monorail.
We all slept like logs!!
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