So, after a hectic day before, we decided to sleep in. Besides, neither of us wanted to get on another rush hour train. That was a nightmare. So we caught up on a little bit of sleep and left probably around 9 ish to head back towards Tokyo and Maihama. I think we got there around 11 AM but I honestly don't remember the exact time. There was a food place right there which had an excellent egg and bacon sandwich. Even thinking about it now makes me want another one. It was so good. At first, we weren't sure where to go but we ended up needing to take the special Disney train to get there. But it was definitely worth it. Tokyo DisneySea was BEAUTIFUL. I mean really beautiful. Though we did end up doing a lot of walking back and forth. Also, it was nice that Tokyo DisneySea was not as crowded as Tokyo Disneyland was the day before and we were able to get through the lines much quicker. We could get through lines in like 20 minutes instead of two hours.
We went straight to Journey to the Center of the Earth as the man we talked to the night before highly recommended it. After we got our fast pass for that, we went to explore Mermaid Lagoon and Triton's Kingdom as we both wanted to see Ariel. It was mostly for little kids but we did get on a few rides. It was really colorful and it was interesting to see their interpretation of where Ariel grew up. Flounder's Flying Fish was a really slow .... I mean really slow .... roller coaster. Jumping Jellyfish only went up and down but you could see all of Triton's Kingdom well on it. Ariel's playground was a bunch of places kids could walk through and we explored that a bit as well.
I really enjoyed the Under the Sea show though it only covered the story up to the part where Ariel decides to become human. Sadly we couldn't take pictures of the theater. Basically, they used puppets about the audience and on the ground level too. Ariel herself was floating around on wires doing lots of spins and stuff. I really enjoyed it though I couldn't tell if the voices were all recorded (as the songs definitely were the recorded English movie recording) or it the actors and actresses actually spoke the Japanese parts. We did meet Ariel later in the day and she spoke both languages fluently. I really liked her because she was really in character. She talked about if we saw Prince Eric to tell him she needed her dinglehopper back so she could brush her hair. ^.^
We also went to the Arabian Coast area which is centered around Aladdin's story. There was a two tiered Caravan Carousel there where I could ride on Genie. Ashley chose to ride on an eleplant. We got on Jasmine's Magic Carpets which is just a normal carpet ride where you can control if you go up and down and can tilt a little. Sinbad's Storybook Voyage was another water ride like Pirates of the Caribbean that made us sleepy but the tiger was really cute. ^.^ I enjoyed the Magic Lamp Theater about a story where a magician steals the lamp from a boy and the boy rescues Genie and becomes Genie's new master. I was really glad that I could actually understand a lot of what they were saying.
Somewhere in the middle of the day we watched one of the water show parades about mythic creatures. The floats were really cool and it was fun to watch the people on jet skis and the kites flying around in the air. Sadly though I had a speaker in front of me so many of my pictures are not centered. But the floats were awesome. They even moved and breathed fire. The unicorn even blinked. Many of the animals such as the dragon and unicorn flapped their wings too. They were really colorful and I could have watched them for a long time.
The Journey to the Center of the Earth was probably my favorite ride as it was a ride where you could see all the crystals and stuff they expect in the center of earth and how we have to race through time to get back to safety. It was slow at first but I was surprised just how fast we were going by the end of the ride. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was a submarine like ride where you explore under the sea. They used bubbles in the glass to make it feel like you were really under the sea.
Near the end of the day, we got on Storm Rider where we are passengers on a bad storm destroyer mission that goes bad. It was really bumpy and we got wet but I found it a lot of fun. Ashley also managed to somehow get me on Raging Spirits which is a roller coaster that does a 360 degree loop. Now, I have never been on a roller coaster that had a loop before and, if you know me, you know by know that I was freaking out. And worse yet, I had to take off my glasses so they didn't fall off on the ride, so I was going in blind. But despite that, it was actually really fun and I'm glad that Ashley made me get on it.
Then we went and saw Fantasmic which is the water show that I think MGM in Florida has. It was done a little differently, as the whole show was completely on the water. It was a lot of fun to watch though I think the dragon was cooler in the Florida show. Sadly they cancelled the fireworks that night, something about whether conditions though it wasn't that windy. So we hopped on the Indian Jones ride before heading home. We ended up skipping the Halloween water show because we just didn't have a good view earlier in the day. So we got to head home a little earlier than planned. But it was definitely a fun filled day and like I said before, the park was just beautiful. We hung out with the hostel people for a while though I eventually went to bed.
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