Tokyo Disney Sea has longer lines than the DMV on a Saturday.

On our second day in Tokyo I fulfilled a dream of mine. I haven't been to Disney world since I was a kid, and Stefhan has never been, so we made plans to trek over to Tokyo Disney.

Tokyo Disney has two parks, the original Disney Land park and Tokyo Disney Sea. We heard great reviews about Disney Sea, and I went on line and discovered that Ariel is there, I was set. Turns out it is very close to the part of Tokyo where we are staying, and it only took 3 transfers and 30 minutes by metro to arrive. Like all other theme parks in the world, they price gouge you every step of the way. Oh, you thought once you arrive at Maihama you just get to walk in? Nope. Please pay another 4$ each to ride the Mickey mouse monorail. Ok thanks.

I was too hyped up on little girl excitement to be bothered by the long wait to get into the park, and we had fun being stared at by teenagers and children alike. Fucking Ariel man, who CARES.

First stop: photo op. them I dragged Stefhan to the mermaid grotto, where we realized that school is out. And not not just for high school, for almost everyone. Throngs of school girls ( in uniform, so it looked like they were playing hookey) flooded every inch of the park.

We explored, and rode rides, and had a generally great time. Then we noticed that the lines for the popular rides were getting longer. And longer. You can buy these "cut the line" passes, called fast pass on order to skip the 2.5 hour wait for the indiana jones rode, for example. But at some point in the day they suspended the sale of those tickets, and everyone has to wait in he regular line. Journey to he center of the earth ride? 240 minutes. Indiana Jones? 190 minutes. We had resigned to head home, stopping for one last ride on the tower of terror. We are led to a snaking line by an attendant who smiles at us and says "San hyapun ok? 5 hours. "

We look at each other and laugh incredulously. 5. Hours. Of. My. Life.

But i want to go on the ride SO BAD So we wait. And we wait. And we wait five hours, and the ride was Awesome! But not worth 5 hours.

Are you kidding me? Would I ever wait 5 hours for anything? FML.

We laugh and snap a picture of the wait time, which seems to be as entertaining to every other sane person, because we were all laughing at the sign. We're walking away and this man with a family comes up to me and starts asking me, in Japanese if we went on the ride. I told him no, and and he hands me two fast pass tickets. He said he didn't want them but to hurry up because we only have 5 minutes to redeem them!
Either that or he told me I owed him my first born. You know my Japanese isnt that good. We run back to the line and sure enough, cut the whole thing.

We head back to the hotel to change and eat, we were going to go to piss alley in shinjuku that night. Stef's falling asleep and decides to take a nap first. I decide I am too. Should we set an alarm? The question is breached, then immediately dismissed. No thanks. I'm on vacation. We'll wake up in an hour, no problem.

4 hours later. Well shit.

Here's to staying up as late as we can tonight!