A Southern Expatriate: Tokyo Disney!

Creepy Alice in Wonderland mascot thing

So we woke up really early and walked to the Sky Tree to catch the bus to Disney. It was freezing cold out side, as you can tell by the picture of me with my huge suitcase waiting for the bus, but we finally got on the bus and were on our way to Disney. Now, I have been doing so much while in Japan, so every time I sit down for more than five seconds I fall into a hardcore deep sleep, so of course I fell asleep on the bus. The bus got to Disney and dropped us off at the monorail so we could go to our hotel. We dropped all of our stuff off at the hotel and headed to Tokyo Disney. Apparently Japanese people take their Disney themed hats very seriously, I was the only one with out a hat on, I felt really pressured to get one, but I just took Riza's for a little bit so I felt cool. It wasn't very crowded at all, so we got to go on tons of rides. While we were waiting in line for Space Mountain, Riza told me that in Japan it is a kind of a superstition that going on your first date to Disney is bad luck, and the relationship will not last. But I was thinking, "Who takes their first date to Disney?" That sounds

pretty serious to me, you need to be married for a solid ten years to deserve a trip to Disney, and I don't want to share my Disney experience with a complete stranger. Even though it was freezing cold outside, we had to go on Splash Mountain. While walking to the ride, I saw Mark Twain's boat on the river so I got a little picture to get in to character for Big River, which will be performed at the Hartt School this Spring where I will be playing Huck, get your tickets now, they are going fast, and bring any famous friends/ agents you know :). So you know how the majority of Splash Mountain is all of these animals talking to you telling you this story, well I have no idea what is going on because it is all in Japanese. So I'm just sitting there looking like an idiot while everyone is all happy listening to what they say. And I can't ask Riza what is going on because she is too scared to say anything, and the ride hadn't even done anything, we were just floating there. I got so frustrated with Riza that when I was talking to her I accidentally called her by my little brother's name, sorry Matthew. But we finally got to the drop and didn't get wet at all, so everything was good. But we didn't

Nifty Minnie Mouse Hat

get through the whole ride with out being a little traumatized, Riza was so nervous she just kept farting over and over again. And these are not cute little Asian farts, they are hardcore man farts, I felt so bad for the people on the ride, but they probably thought it was me. So there are all of these people dressed up like the Disney characters, and the ones that are supposed to be white are portrayed by white people, it is funny watching them speak English to these Asians who have no idea what they are saying. I saw Mary Poppins get a little flustered with a group of people wanting a picture with her who didn't understand that she couldn't get a picture and had to go get ready for the parade. They just kept trying to get pictures with her and Mary kept being like, "Mary can't take any more photos right now" in her perfect little British accent, but Mary was about to get ghetto and punch someone out, but alas, she didn't; I was disappointed. Then we went on a lot of other rides and saw a light parade which was pretty cool. The last ride we went on was Lilo and Stich. It wasn't really a ride, but you sat there and

I ate like 32 of these

It's a Small World!!!

Spotted, Mark Twain's boat.

all these mechanical birds sang and Stitch pops out and sings a little. There were like five other people in there with us and one guy wearing sun glasses, even though it was pitch black dark outside. He was trying to be all cool, but I mean come on, you are in a Lilo and Stitch sing along show, you kind of can't play it cool. So I lived it up and sang along in Japanese, pretty sure I got not one word right and sounded a little tone deaf but I could really care less. We went on a Monster's Inc. ride where you play some kind of flash light tag with the monsters, so of course I wanted a picture with my flashlight, but you aren't supposed to take pictures, but I don't speak Japanese so they can't yell at me for not knowing. I am sure there are english signs somewhere that say that but oh well. The lady comes up and tells us not to take pictures in Japanese and I just sit there looking confused and talking in English and she eventually goes away, so we got the picture, Patton: 1 Disney: 0. We went on this Buzz Lightyear ride where you shoot these aliens, and I don't wanna brag or anything, but I pretty much was the best person to ever ride that ride. I got so many points, I am pretty sure I am ready to be a Space Ranger. After all our Disney adventures that day we headed back to the hotel. We stopped at the mall on the monorail and got dinner and I got to get a big fat cheeseburger. It was the most glorious things I have ever tasted, so I took a picture to forever remember the occasion. It was probably just a mediocre burger, but I was deprived for so long, so it tasted like sweet manna from heaven. So my word for the day is "sorry" because I really had to use it a lot in Disney when I kept bumping into people, so here yall go, "gomen ne" ごめんね