Tokyo Disney - Dec 29th

Monday started out wet and rainy but since we had already purchased our 2 day passes, we pretty much had to to go Disneyland (it's not a flex pass like in California).  I thought we'd get an early start and that combined with rain and a Monday, that it would be less crowded.  Nope.  Buzz Lightyear ride - 200 minutes.  Monster Inc - 180 minutes.  Pretty much every popular ride had a standby wait that was around 3 hours.  So the first thing we did was go get Splash mountain fast pass tickets before they ran out for the day.  Then I stood in line with the littles for Monsters Inc (partly because they had a covered area to stand in) and Chad and Jamie stood in line for Star Tours.  I think the wait was actually more like 2 hours so that was good.  Then we headed over to Tom Sawyer's Island because that was a wait of zero minutes!  We spent a good time out there exploring the whole island and then we came back and found a covered area to eat our lunch.   Finally it was time for Splash Mountain!  Tristan said it was his "first favorite ride", and we all had fun.  Jamie ended up getting splashed but he had a water-resistant coat on anyway so it was no big deal.  I bought the picture of us going on it, I'll try to take a picture (of the picture) soon.  After that we went on Mark Twain's riverboat and the carousel, then Chad took Tristan on a rocket ship ride while I took Jamie and Abby to Thunder Mountain with the next batch of fast passes that we had gotten.  Once that was finished we all headed onto the It's a Small World ride, which Tristan also really liked (as did I since it was quite warm inside!).  We all went over to Toon town to visit Minnie's house then Chad and Abby went on Thunder Mountain and I took the boys on the little roller coaster, as well as exploring a bunch of the different houses in Toon town.  Once Chad and Abby returned, we went on the little coaster again and decided that we were frozen enough to not be able to stay another hour and a half to wait for the electric light parade.  Instead we opted to head over to the district near our hotel and we found a ramen shop to warm up in, and had some really tasty ramen while we there!

First stop - the Subway.  Okay, first stop was actually FamilyMart (picnic lunch) and Starbucks (latte)

Soaking up the rain - thankfully it lightened up but it was still really cold all day

Monsters Inc ride

with Abby and Tristan

Out to Tom Sawyer's Island

Mark Twain riverboat, which we did later

Splash Mountain ride (wasn't the one in California only 1 person wide?)

Which flavor do we have this time (maybe Marmalade?)

rocketship ride

Minnie's couch

Goofy's painting

On our way out in front of the New Year's decoration

Thawing out

Slurp!