"Wherever I wander, wherever I roam, I couldn't be fonder of my big home"
-The Bare Necessities, The Jungle Book

Tokyo Disneyland is the strangest place on earth. Its so eerily similar to DisneyWorld in Florida except everything is in Japanese. You have the mini- New Orleans area, the American riverboat cruise, and Space Mountain in all it's '80s inspired, Coca-Cola sponsored glory. We had the option between Disneyland or DisneySea, but although Sea was tempting- you can drink in the park- Disneyland won out.

Eve, Rusty, and our neighbour Jason all headed out for a day at Disneyland. I've been to Disney in Florida maybe 5 times so I was familiar enough with the layout of the park and the rides there to be confused in Tokyo. It was a little surreal. Of course, before we had even entered the park gates, I had to buy a pair of Minnie Mouse ears to wear the rest of the day.

We went on the usual rides like Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain. Because we're big nad can push kids out of the way to race into the ride queues, we managed to get on every ride we wanted. It was unbearably hot though. Luckily, all the lines are inside in air-conditioned buildings. It started to pour with rain and lightning and while all the Japanese and Asian tourists ran for cover, we waltzed around in the rain. Only other foreigners were out in the rain. Luckily the rain ended shortly and it was back to blistering heat and humidity.

"When you look under the rocks and plants, And take a glance at the fancy ants"
It's a Small World was different- if you're not familiar with the ride, it's basically a small boat cruise around different countries of the world where animatronic children sing and dance. Canada and in fact, all of North America was represented by some penguins on the ice. Not even an igloo or Mountie in sight. I usually love It's a Small World because it is so unintentionally offensive and racist with it's stereotypical depiction of countries- for example: African continents are represented by puppets wearing loincloths and riding cheetahs, the Greeks are playing flutes for goats, the middle east has puppets in turbans riding around on flying carpets, and so on and so forth. I love it.

We didn't spot a single Mickey Mouse character in costume, but we did run across a fox from Song of the South who came over to us and pretended to drink lemonade (or lemon sqush if you wil) out of my straw. But that's fine since I dislike Mickey Mouse anyway. We also went into the Tiki Bird room to hear animatronic birds sing and rap in Japanese with the occasional "Feelin' hot hot hot" in English thrown in.

As we were getting ready to leave, I went exploring on my own and found these signs (and took pctures for Mairin and Shane):
The Bebop did not, in fact, serve the BeBop sundae from the great Canadian diner, Nickel's.

And no, we didn't hear "You call this bacon?" playing anywhere in the park.

"That's why a bear can rest at ease"