October 22: Part 2 Tokyo Disneyland. Now it's time to say goodbye!
We entered the park, and at that point there were no more fastpasses available for anything - at least according to the two apps we used (TDR Dashboard and TokyoDMap). We decided to first go onto Pirates of the Caribbean.
We then walked into Adventureland, and I decided that we should walk through Swiss Family Treehouse. This tree house seems a lot bigger than the Tarzan tree house, though I wouldn't say it was any better.
The treehouse had a great view of the park and the castle
Well, as I said in the previous post, there was one thing that I bought at Bon Voyage that I had somehow missed earlier. I already had and was wearing my cool Donald Duck t-shirt, but that morning we found this!
How cute is that keychain plush! It's Donald wearing the same shirt that I'm wearing and he's wearing a shirt with himself on it! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE! I could not get over the cuteness and had to buy it. I am embarrassed to say that I spent about 10 minutes trying to get this picture, making sure I got the castle in the background, making sure Donald was sitting up. The things you do for instagram! lol.
We then walked over to Monster's Inc as we were really wanting to ride that again. The wait was about 2 hours, but we figured we might as well stick it out.
During our wait we decided to use the time to eat. Andy brought leftovers from Nataraj, and went to get some fries. He also was jealous of my Donald shirt and plush, so he went and bought himself the Daisy shirt and plush.
I was a little annoyed that he bought them, as I didn't want to be one of those couples/groups that match. ::eye roll:: Once Andy came back, I took the time to go eat some fun Disney food. Don't judge me, but I ended up getting two entrees at the Plaza Pavilion, having been deprived of most of the Disney food during my trip. I got a beef bowl with a mickey shaped egg (okay), a fried chicken mickey hand sandwich (absolutely delicious), and a mike wazowski bean pastry (cute but meh).
I also got a soda from these cute robot soda vending machines.
After finishing up, I returned to the line. We still had about an hour to go. Even when it seemed like we were close when we got inside, we were really so far! It seemed like for every 100 parties in the fastpass line that they let through, they let through two parties in the standby line.
Finally, we were able to get through the ride. It was dark outside at this point and probably around 6/6:30. We decided to head to Splash Mountain. Oh hai, castle!
We went into the single rider line again, and while there was a short wait where the cast member was not being very efficient, it actually worked out nicely. The loading cast member switched out to a male cast member, and he was really good at filling the seats. In fact, because there were no other parties of two, me and Andy ended up being able to sit together in our log. Yippee!
The parade was about to start so we knew this would be a good time to go on Pooh since the parade blocked any paths to get to Pooh. When we first got in line, the posted wait time was 40 minutes, but in reality, it was only a 15 minute wait. Since it went so fast, we got in line again, and went on for a second time. The wait was only 10 minutes! Score!
On the first trip around, we were placed in the third car, and in the second trip, we were placed in the second car. Having finally ridden all three, the second car was hands down, the best one. It just had the best views of the big room.
Goodbye, Pooh for now!
Our last attraction of the night before we had to leave for the airport was Mickey's Philharmagic. It was as enjoyable as the last few times.
We headed out to World Bazaar and looked through a few more shops, and found some more interesting merchandise. Jeans boxers or salami, anyone?
We left the park around 9 so we could get to the airport shortly before 10 pm. We got to Haneda, checked in our luggage. We had to be a little sneaky so they wouldn't try to weigh Andy's carry ons, since they were probably heavy, so we had to check in separately. As I said, I had an extra shopping bag and we both had our plushes, so I was worried they would stop us at the gate and make us check something, but they didn't. We got on our plane and headed back to LAX. Goodbye Japan.
Until next time!
As one final note about the vegetarian option on ANA - that was by far the worst meal I have had on any flight ever. It was some sort of veggie meatloaf, but it reminded me of what catfood probably tastes and feels like. Bleh.