Disney Sea

What a fun day!  We spent the entire day at Disney Sea.  It is right next to Tokyo Disneyland.  It is kind of like a couple of the Disney World resorts put together.  They have their own mascot.  Duffy the Disney Bear.  They LOVE Duffy down here.  When we first arrived in Japan, I saw something with the Duffy and Disney logo.  I pointed it out to Maysen and said, "They don't know that Duffy isn't a Disney character."  Well, obviously I was completely wrong because Duffy is EVERYWHERE.  He even has a friend named ShellieMay.  We saw many people pose for photographs with their Duffy and ShellieMay dolls.  It was quite the sight.

Anyway, today was wonderful.  It was quite windy, which at times was bothersome; but I found myself longing for the wind whenever it stopped blowing.  It sure kept the heat away and made for a perfect day.

Brett & Mina ~ now those are fun rings!

 Mike, Marie & Maysen on the monorail

 Tickets!

 Maysen, Mike, Stephanie

 Brett & Mina, Rachel & Marie

 Stephanie (Mickey & Duffy)

 Mike, Maysen, Stephanie

 Maysen & Mike exploring DaVinci's flying machine

 Maysen & Stephanie

 Mike had fun with the cannons

 Mike & Maysen

 Brett with Marie the celebrity

 Marie & Ariel

 Mina

 Marie

 Maysen

 Two story Merry-Go-Round

Brett said they got three rides stopped for them.  They stopped the merry-go-round because Brett hopped on Mina's horse during the ride.  She was on a one-person horse, so they stopped the ride and told him he needed to get down.  The other ride was the bumper boat ride (Aquatopia).  Mina lost her shoe.  They stopped the ride and fished it out.  I can't remember the third ride that was stopped.

Flower Genie

 Stephanie & Maysen

 Maysen

 Mike & Maysen with their milk-flavored ice cream cones

 Maysen & Mike on the flying carpets (kind of like Dumbo)

I wish I had gotten an English Japanese shirt.  Some of them were so funny!  My favorite was one that said, "My name is Tapioca Pudding".  I got a picture of this cute little girl with her "To be happy toy" shirt.

 Disney Sea ~ right next to the ocean

 Maysen & Mike

 Maysen & Stephanie

 Stephanie & Mike

 Maysen & Stephanie

Marie's FAVORITE part of the day was Triton's Kingdom.  She loved it in there!  We went and saw a show in the Mermaid Lagoon Theater. Mina LOVED it!  She has never sat so still before!  It's kind of funny because the show is in Japanese, but the songs are in English.  They changed the show and Ariel decides she should not leave home.  Brett & Rachel like to joke that it is very Japanese ~ trying to indoctrinate the kids that they shouldn't leave Japan.

Marie & Maysen

 Stephanie, Mina, Marie, Maysen

 Maysen & Mina ~ Mina likes Maysen.
Not a big fan of me, but she loves Maysen!

 Mina

 Mina & Maysen

 Maysen, Stephanie & Marie

 Mina ~ what a cutie!

 Maysen & Prince Eric

 Stephanie & Prince Eric ~ we couldn't find a Dinglehopper

 Marie & Mina

 Love those girls!

 Rachel & Mina who is still going strong

 Exhausted Marie

 Mike, Mina & Maysen

 Rachel & Mina

My favorite ride today was The Tower of Terror.  I have never been on that ride, but I remember the Fuller's talking about it years ago!  Again, everything is in Japanese, but we were able to get the gist.  Mike's favorite ride was the Indiana Jones ride.  That was fun and Maysen got to be in the driver's seat for it.  My favorite picture was one of Brett on the Indiana Jones ride.  Mike, Maysen and I were off by ourselves most of the day.  Brett & Rachel would take turns riding rides.  On the Indiana Jones ride, Brett was in the jeep with a group of Japanese school children in their uniforms.  Oh man!  Every time I walked past a group of school children (and that happened a lot) I couldn't help laughing. Brett said he was laughing the entire ride about it!

One of these things is not like the other.

At the end of the day Mike, Brett & Marie went to Storm Chasers. Rachel, Mina, Maysen and I went to watch Fantasmic.  It was really crowded so I put Maysen on my shoulders.  It is not as easy to do that as it used to be.  Maysen enjoyed the show, so it was worth it.  I love Disney.  (Except the time I took all four kids by myself to Disney World during spring break.  That was a bad idea!  I basically paid over $500 so they could ride Dumbo and Peter Pan.  Maysen and Stockton did get to ride the log flume, but that was it.  This trip to Disney Sea was so much nicer!)