A Series of International Incidents: The Disney Debacle*

For the fourth and fifth days of my mother's visit we went to Tokyo Disney, both Land and Sea. I love Disney more than may be healthy, so this leg of the trip worked well for me.

Luckily, my mom also likes Disney, so we had a great time! It's pretty much the same Disney as the first time Lee and I went, except this time I got to go on the Monsters Inc ride without any drama or waiting in the rain for hours in vain. Cute, but it certainly wouldn't have been worth hours of waiting! My mother was as impressed by Disney Sea as we were.  Other highlights of this trip included the Aladdin carousel:

Fancy macarons for dessert with lovely fresh raspberries, something you can't really find in Kanazawa:

Japanese pizza with surprise corn and ham, in the shape of Mickey:

The electric parade:

Which had some really, really cool effects, like Genie changing colors:

There was also a fairly creepy collection of Duffy bears:

We took a ride on the gondolas around the lagoon of Disney Sea to wrap up our Disney visit, a nice little boat ride in the dark with the park lit up; it was really nice:

There are more pictures up at Flickr, and I recommend looking through at least the Electric Light Parade ones. They're shiny. After Disney, it was time to head off to Kanazawa with a side trip to Mito, which will be shown next time.

*Disney not particularly a debacle - the titles of this series of posts references A Series of Unfortunate Events because the international incidents part is semi-accurate and coming up with alliterative names for the rest of it is amusing.