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Day 6 - DisneySea/Disneyland (Part 1)
We had initially planned on 2 full days at each park. But we both preferred DisneySea, and we didn’t have to get to DisneySea as early for rope drop. So we decided to begin the day there, and hop over to Disneyland in the afternoon.
As we did every day at DisneySea, we began the day by getting (or at least attempting to get) a Fastpass for Journey to the Center of the Earth. Then we went straight to Indiana Jones to ride via standby. We got there early enough today that we had no wait.
When we exited the ride, I was sad because I knew I wouldn’t get to ride this again for a long time. That would be a recurring theme throughout the day.
Next, we walked through Port Discovery and American Waterfront to get a DAS return time for Tower of Terror. Then we got some Matcha White Chocolate Popcorn.
Pocky liked it quite a bit. I thought it was okay. As we ate the popcorn, we made our way back through American Waterfront to get to Port Discovery.
Once we got to Port Discovery, we noticed the line for pizza turnovers was very short. There were like 5 people in line, versus 40ish the previous day. So we got another Chicken and Mozzarella turnover.
It was just as good as the day before. Next, we rode Aquatopia for the final time.
It was time to use our FP for Journey. When we got off, we saw that the Fastpasses currently being given out for Journey were only like an hour in the future. Whereas by this time the previous day they were almost gone. So we grabbed another FP. We’d get to ride Journey one more time!
Our DAS return time was upon us, so we hustled (as much as I could hustle anyway) over to Tower of Terror.
This time, I took my jacket off prior to boarding. I still had to contort myself slightly to get buckled in, but nothing like the first time.
Next we got several more snacks. We wouldn’t be eating any proper meals today. Just snacks upon snacks. I believe all of these snacks were from the American Waterfront area.
First, Strawberry Popcorn. This was good.
Next was a Pork Rice Roll. This was okay, but it was oddly soft. The pork had no texture whatsoever.
Next was a Ruby Chocolate Raspberry drink. Pocky liked this a lot.
And our final savory snack at DisneySea was a Black Pepper Chicken Roll. This was basically just a really tender piece of seasoned boneless chicken. It was actually really good.
It was time to ride Journey for the last time. I was really bummed out by this. And to top things off, we had our worst ride. We had really loud, obnoxious people in our car. That was actually fairly common, but these were the worst. It was a bummer to end it that way.
On that note, I have to get something out of my system. The employees, pretty much without exception, were absolutely amazing. But we found the Japanese park guests to be just as rude, in general, as guests in the States. I had lots of people cut really close right in front of me while walking, stepping or tripping on my cane. Out of all the times this happened, only once did they say sorry. Most turned and glared at me. I had many people cough right in my face. I even had a guy that was wearing a face mask pull down his mask, cough in my face, and then pull his mask back up. I had tons of people practically bouncing off me while gesturing wildly or dancing (yes, really) in the queues, or hitting me with their huge backpacks. Never did those people say excuse me or apologize. And Pocky agrees with me on every point.
A hilarious thing that happened more than once was somebody would knock something off of a shelf, notice it hit the ground, and then turn and glare at me as though I had done it. So I would end up picking it up, as I didn’t want a cast member to think I’d knocked it off and left it on the floor.
I am not saying the guests there were worse than the guests in the US. I’m just saying they were no different. There were plenty of super nice people, and there were plenty of jerks.
When our trip first started, I was comically over the top about being polite and considerate, practically jumping out of the way of people, always letting people in front of me, saying “sumimasen” if I even gently brushed against somebody, etc. It only took a couple of days for me to revert back to “normal”.
And now back to our regularly scheduled trip report.
We were near Port Discovery, so we decided to do the DisneySea Electric Railway. It had no wait.
It took us right back to American Waterfront. We had planned on getting back on for the return trip, but there was a fairly sizable line.
At this point we decided to call it a day at DisneySea, and head over to Disneyland. My only regret is not riding Sindbad one more time. But it was almost 1pm, and we wanted to make sure we had enough time at Disneyland. So we headed toward the exit. But we had to stop to get one more order of these little beauties first.
Before we knew it we were at DisneySea Station for the final time.
That wraps up our time at DisneySea. The rest of our day is soon to come in part 2!
We had initially planned on 2 full days at each park. But we both preferred DisneySea, and we didn’t have to get to DisneySea as early for rope drop. So we decided to begin the day there, and hop over to Disneyland in the afternoon.
As we did every day at DisneySea, we began the day by getting (or at least attempting to get) a Fastpass for Journey to the Center of the Earth. Then we went straight to Indiana Jones to ride via standby. We got there early enough today that we had no wait.
When we exited the ride, I was sad because I knew I wouldn’t get to ride this again for a long time. That would be a recurring theme throughout the day.
Next, we walked through Port Discovery and American Waterfront to get a DAS return time for Tower of Terror. Then we got some Matcha White Chocolate Popcorn.
Pocky liked it quite a bit. I thought it was okay. As we ate the popcorn, we made our way back through American Waterfront to get to Port Discovery.
Once we got to Port Discovery, we noticed the line for pizza turnovers was very short. There were like 5 people in line, versus 40ish the previous day. So we got another Chicken and Mozzarella turnover.
It was just as good as the day before. Next, we rode Aquatopia for the final time.
It was time to use our FP for Journey. When we got off, we saw that the Fastpasses currently being given out for Journey were only like an hour in the future. Whereas by this time the previous day they were almost gone. So we grabbed another FP. We’d get to ride Journey one more time!
Our DAS return time was upon us, so we hustled (as much as I could hustle anyway) over to Tower of Terror.
This time, I took my jacket off prior to boarding. I still had to contort myself slightly to get buckled in, but nothing like the first time.
Next we got several more snacks. We wouldn’t be eating any proper meals today. Just snacks upon snacks. I believe all of these snacks were from the American Waterfront area.
First, Strawberry Popcorn. This was good.
Next was a Pork Rice Roll. This was okay, but it was oddly soft. The pork had no texture whatsoever.
Next was a Ruby Chocolate Raspberry drink. Pocky liked this a lot.
And our final savory snack at DisneySea was a Black Pepper Chicken Roll. This was basically just a really tender piece of seasoned boneless chicken. It was actually really good.
It was time to ride Journey for the last time. I was really bummed out by this. And to top things off, we had our worst ride. We had really loud, obnoxious people in our car. That was actually fairly common, but these were the worst. It was a bummer to end it that way.
On that note, I have to get something out of my system. The employees, pretty much without exception, were absolutely amazing. But we found the Japanese park guests to be just as rude, in general, as guests in the States. I had lots of people cut really close right in front of me while walking, stepping or tripping on my cane. Out of all the times this happened, only once did they say sorry. Most turned and glared at me. I had many people cough right in my face. I even had a guy that was wearing a face mask pull down his mask, cough in my face, and then pull his mask back up. I had tons of people practically bouncing off me while gesturing wildly or dancing (yes, really) in the queues, or hitting me with their huge backpacks. Never did those people say excuse me or apologize. And Pocky agrees with me on every point.
A hilarious thing that happened more than once was somebody would knock something off of a shelf, notice it hit the ground, and then turn and glare at me as though I had done it. So I would end up picking it up, as I didn’t want a cast member to think I’d knocked it off and left it on the floor.
I am not saying the guests there were worse than the guests in the US. I’m just saying they were no different. There were plenty of super nice people, and there were plenty of jerks.
When our trip first started, I was comically over the top about being polite and considerate, practically jumping out of the way of people, always letting people in front of me, saying “sumimasen” if I even gently brushed against somebody, etc. It only took a couple of days for me to revert back to “normal”.
And now back to our regularly scheduled trip report.
We were near Port Discovery, so we decided to do the DisneySea Electric Railway. It had no wait.
It took us right back to American Waterfront. We had planned on getting back on for the return trip, but there was a fairly sizable line.
At this point we decided to call it a day at DisneySea, and head over to Disneyland. My only regret is not riding Sindbad one more time. But it was almost 1pm, and we wanted to make sure we had enough time at Disneyland. So we headed toward the exit. But we had to stop to get one more order of these little beauties first.
Before we knew it we were at DisneySea Station for the final time.
That wraps up our time at DisneySea. The rest of our day is soon to come in part 2!
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