Disney (Half) Day

Oh my...I knew I should have never bothered getting us the tickets. And, to learnt hat it was all due to a misunderstanding, a mis-reading of a situation...Oh, please, when the one you love mentions something a couple of times and with fondness, you are going to pick up on it, even if that thing is the one thing you despise the most....DISNEY LAND! But, not just any...Tokyo's very own. The land is is mental busy as it is, the land that has craziness oozing out of every corner, the land that suddenly creates an extra corner for all that extra ooz to ooze back into!
Welcome to Tokyo Disney Land.

I had been once before...and vowed to never return! But here we were, a the gates at around 9am, opening time. We had already been there for a while. We took Elbi, the dog to the pet club! Yes, his home for the day, which turned out to be a caged nightmare, with enough barking to crack your head open. Not a good start to the day, really.

Still, we ventured in and tried to be positive, ignoring the imbeciles in the line ahead. Adults seem to use this day as some very inexplicable excuse to dress up and act even more childish than they do already. The group ahead had just two children, none of which had anything Disney on them, where as the number of adults seemed to increase by the second as more queue jumpers joined the group. Each adult had something Disney related, whether it was a stupid oversized hat, or Mickey ears. I despair.

The rides are as appauling as the horrid families dragging their children through the queues. You would think they rides were about to shut the way some people behaved. Charging for the front of the line, mothers pull their children with a firm hand. Others wait in line and then stall at the main entrance, waiting fo the rest of the family to come join with their curry popcorn.

Our first ride, which wasn't even a ride, gave us a chance to rest our feet for ten minutes at least. It was a shocker of an 80's mini movie attempt starring Michael Jackson and some rather bizarrely cute robots. The storyline was bearable for the first few minutes, even wit MJ speaking. But then it took a leap into the madness that only th e80's could have allowed. MJ was starring as Captain Eo, who was here to save the day with his super powers and dancing...I mean, please, all that crotch action at that time in the morning? And with kids around? Shocking.

We managed to get into a few other rides, It's a small world, which was rather sweet but made me pine after long distance travel and a haunted house that was not at all scary but at least pleasant to go through.

Indeed, TDL was the biggest disappointment. We lasted 4 hours, but all was not lost. We rescued Elbi from his caged nightmare and the three of us had the best afternoon in the sunshine eating and drinking and feeling rather lucky that we had, despite the morning's bad vibes, once again, found our quiet corner in the world, namely our local hood in Tokyo.