disneyland part 1

Early Sunday Jan 16th, we got on the train heading towards Tokyo. We had spent a great deal of time the day before planning it so we could make only one transfer. The only hitch was that at our point of transfer, we had but 2 minutes to get off train A and get to train B. We could do it! And in fact, we did. But once we arrived at the train B's platform there were red symbols flashing across the reader-board instead of what would normally display the next train. Of course we didn't know what the problem was, seeing that it was in Japanese, but we knew there was a problem and so eventually we had to hop on another train, figure out where that one was going, and then transfer again. All our precise planning down the drain! But alas, only about 30 minutes was wasted. We arrived at the hotel to drop off our bags and then we were off again (on another 3 trains) to Tokyo Disneyland.

With the wind chill it had to be near freezing temperatures, yet Tristan insisted on continuously ripping off his shoes and socks. We eventually had to put him in the ergo just to keep him from doing so.

On our way from the hotel.
View from the train of tokyo (part of it).


Jamie's already stole Chad's hat:
One of the differences between disneyland LA and tokyo is that Main St. is all under cover:
Am I the only one excited to be here?

Mr. excitement himself, come on, you just rode space mountain! (which he loved...)My princess:
Abby and Tristan went on the carousel:



and we also did It's a Small World. No flash photography allowed so this was the best picture I got. For the holidays they had it all decorated with lights and they were singing Jingle Bells...in English.
Jamie wore my coat for awhile but I only had a sweatshirt so I had to take it back,
and him and I went on thunder mountain railroad.
He wore Tristan's hat for awhile:


And even though this isn't in focus, his smile is priceless:

until next time.