we were exhausted on the first day from the night flight!
we've learnt that it's a no no with young children!
poor lizzie hardly slept and threw up many times on the coach from airport to disneyland.
but thank God that we stayed at the newly open tokyo disneyland hotel which is gorgeous and situated just outside the park!
the cool air and the sight of the castle-like hotel and the amusement park quickly brighten up lizzie when she alighted from the coach.
we quickly went into the park after putting our luggage at the hotel.
unfortunately, it was so crowded at tokyo disneyland during this time as it is spring break for the japanese students.
we had to queue for rides, toilets, food and shopping!
it's tough with two young toddlers especially lizzie who wanted to be carried most of the time on the first day as she was tired and a little apprehensive of the new environment!
though she can take most rides, she's only comfortable taking those without much sound effects!
we went back to the hotel for a nap in the noon and went back into the park till dusk!
we had fantastic views of the whole park and fireworks at night from our room!
on the second day, we woke up at 7am,
ate our breakfast within 30min and started queuing at the gate of the disneyland.
although the tokyo disneyland residents enter the amusement park through a different entrance from the public, it was already crowded with people from the hotel.
but it was worse at the public entrance.
the moment we past the gate, both kaif and i raced into the park like everyone else!
it was such a frenzy!
while kaif ran to get fast pass for winnie the pooh rides with marissa in the patapum pouch, i ran and pushed lizzie in her stroller to her favourite dumbo elephant rides!
we were crazy! like all the japanese around us!
can't believe that we did these things for our kids!
i remembered that i was so cold that my ears hurt like mad!
i was running as fast as i could in my, not sports shoes, but only pair of lanvin ballerina flats!
so my feet were really numb with cold!
despite the tiredness and crowd, we were all very happy at the tokyo disneyland and will plan to return when marissa is much older.
its dreamlike land just makes you forget about all the cares in the world!
another thing which i'll never forget is that because lizzie was afraid of taking pictures with all the disney characters, her mommy, i, had to squeeze through the crowd to take memorable photos with them!
even baby marissa managed to take 3 rides at disneyland – a small world, winnie the pooh and car racing with mommy who drove with one hand! ;p
