Disneyland

We spent our first full day in Tokyo at Disneyland. We were to meet our bus in front of the hotel at 9am. I was concerned we would oversleep, but that is often difficult to do with Zach. We ordered breakfast and started getting ready. Clara was a bit sluggish, but again, it is hard to stay in bed long with Zach around.

The kids eating a combo of fresh fruit and poptarts. The breakfast of champions!

It wasn't too long and we were rolling up at the gate. We had a fabulous day at Disney. We exchanged our vouchers for passports and got busy on our day of fun.

A view of Cinderella's castle from the World Bazaar.

And of course, as soon as we found a spot that wasn't streaming with people, I started slathering on the sunscreen.
Don't you just love Clara's Minnie ears? We tried to get Zach to go for a hat but he was having none of it.
After walking for several minutes, riding the Star Jets ride and adjusting to the heat we decided to stop for a little refreshing beverage and snacks. Charlie ordered a shrimp burger but was pleasantly surprised with his Mickey-shaped pizza. Honestly, it didn't look tasty but he said it was good.

We spent a lot of time in Toon Town where we rode several rides and the kids were able to explore various playhouses.

Interestingly, Goofy's car has the steering wheel on the left side...I bet Charlie felt funny!

Zachy...OUT! Charlie and Clara took off to ride the Haunted Mansion while Zach and I walked around with the hopes he would fall asleep. He was not pleased but finally gave in. It was horribly hot but I managed to find a place in the shade.
After Zach woke up, Charlie got the kids push pops to cool down.

Then we went on several more rides including this ship, the train, and a jungle cruise. Zach really got the hang of waiting in line.

This is on the jungle cruise and it was really neat. None of the animals were real, but they set it up quite nicely and the kids were quite impressed.
It was time to fuel up so we chowed down on some chicken curry. Zach loves this meal, and it was fairly tasty.

After dinner we caught a small show that the kids enjoyed. On a side note, I am intrigued by the periodic use of English at the park. All the singing in this show was in Japanese, however nearly at the end Mickey called out: One more time! Interesting. Anyway, as we began making our way on around the park we noticed people already hunkering down for the electric parade. We felt like we had already put in a full day so planted ourselves down right near the World Bazaar for a quick exit after the parade. We wanted to be able to pick up t-shirts before we left the park. We sat there for quite a while. After a time out, Zach was pretty good. Charlie ended up getting the kids a couple of rather annoying (but fun) souvenirs that make plenty of sounds and are accompanied by lights.
Still waiting. Clara has been around the Japanese too much! See her peace sign. The Japanese are often seen posing for pictures with everyone doing peace signs.
This was my first time seeing the electric parade and it. was. awesome. I loved it and took a picture of every single float (aren't you glad I spared you). They just kept coming! It was well worth the wait.
After the parade, we took off to get t-shirts, as apparently everyone else in the park has the same idea. We held off a few minutes and slipped into a shop that was not nearly as bustling as some of the others (but that is not to say they weren't busy). We quickly found shirts in our sizes that had Disneyland Tokyo on them and headed toward the bus. Charlie snapped this picture right before we left of Cinderella's Castle all lit up.
Zach was out in minutes of being on the bus. I took many more pictures but this does a fair job of documenting our visit. We were all rather tired and while I had grand ideas of baths and showers upon arriving at the hotel, Zach didn't even wake up when I carried him from the bus or when I changed him in the room.

Day 2: Tokyo sightseeing tour!