Sorry for the lapse in blogs. I am staying at a friends house this week and she only has dial up. My wonderful husband found out that Peter Piper Pizza has free wireless Internet...so as I sit here at 9:30 pm.....please enjoy a recap from our trip to Tokyo Disney...
After riding the over night bu from Himeji to Tokyo (it took us 10 hrs), the kids were very excited when they figured out where we were going.
At the entrance....Many people had told us that Tokyo Disney looked exactly like Disneyland in California...we didn't think so. There was no train station right out front
Many of the characters were out front to greet us...Pluto
I think this is Gapeto (from Pinocchio)
And Pinocchio. I was impressed with how the kids were with the characters. Sara wouldn't go near them but she was willing to stand next to her brother who was VERY excited to see them.
Don't think there is a Hokushi's in California
This is the end of Main street. Very different.
ToonTown entrance
While Mitch and I waited in line for the Jolly Trolley, RJ and Sara found fun things to play on
More cars
Cool water..yes it was hot and yes we let Sara get into the fountain.
The Jolly Family on the Jolly Trolley
More characters in Toontown
Tea cups. RJ and I went pretty fast on our spinning.
Sara chased Max down for a picture
Pumping up the water for an explosion
Checking out the hole in the door
Get me out of here!!
The parade...I don't know what was better...seeing Tigger bounce or watching my kids have the time of their lives!! It was awesome to see they experience all of this for the first time!
RJ and Sara waving at their favorite characters.
The castle
Tokyo Disney map
Not too sure about this, but it was outside while we were waiting for the bus back to our hotel.
I have a few more entries for Tokyo, but I am going to get kicked out of the pizza place soon. I have created our new blog at
http://thehammesclan.blogspot.com/ but there isn't much there yet. It will mainly be a blog for our friends in Japan and family out of Arizona so they can keep up with the kids and see what they are up too and to see what Arizona is really like.
Check back in next week....not sure when I will be given permission to leave again....
Our hotel. We stayed on the 44th floor.
part of the view our of our room
RJ and daddy went swimming...Sara wasn't old enough by hotel standards...
The Tokyo skyline by night (this was on Mitch's camera) You can see Tokyo Tower just left of the center of the picture.
A picture of almost the same spot during the day.
There were games to play
And ramunei to drink
And friends to pose for pictures with...
Some of the scenery from the streets
RJ checking everything out....
Cute yukatas for the bears
Here is some evidence that we were actually in a Japanese store.
After we were all done. Sara got a Kimono for Pink Peaches and RJ got a ginbei for Wilbur the Wildcat. Everyone was happy
While wondering around we came across some familiar sights...
A cute rabbit on the street
More of the city streets
More familiar sights (KFC)
These Sanrio stores were everywhere. You could get anything Hello Kitty or even Shinkansen (the bullet train) there. These were RJ and Sara's favorite kind of stores
If we weren't headed home after this trip, we might have stopped for some American Pizza
A street performer
A Smoking area on the street corner
City streets
More familiar sights
Many of the characters were out front to greet us...Pluto
I think this is Gapeto (from Pinocchio)
And Pinocchio. I was impressed with how the kids were with the characters. Sara wouldn't go near them but she was willing to stand next to her brother who was VERY excited to see them.
Don't think there is a Hokushi's in California
This is the end of Main street. Very different.
ToonTown entrance
While Mitch and I waited in line for the Jolly Trolley, RJ and Sara found fun things to play on
More cars
Cool water..yes it was hot and yes we let Sara get into the fountain.
The Jolly Family on the Jolly Trolley
More characters in Toontown
Tea cups. RJ and I went pretty fast on our spinning.
Sara chased Max down for a picture
Pumping up the water for an explosion
Checking out the hole in the door
Get me out of here!!
The parade...I don't know what was better...seeing Tigger bounce or watching my kids have the time of their lives!! It was awesome to see they experience all of this for the first time!
RJ and Sara waving at their favorite characters.
The castle
Tokyo Disney map
Not too sure about this, but it was outside while we were waiting for the bus back to our hotel.
