Are you taking the Mickey?

It is Liz's dream to go to Tokyo Disneyland so a bunch of us made a trip to the big, bad city for the weekend to fulfil her dream. Liz loves all things Disney, she owns all the DVDs and knows all the songs, and has even worked in a Disney Park! There were a few problems with getting tickets, I've never known it to happen but the Park was sold out, thats right, too many people inside so they had to stop ticket sales. It was just an ordinary weekend, no special occassion yet it seemed like half of Tokyo decided to take their kids on a day out.

Tokyo Disneyland is supposed to be an exact replica of the Californian Park, though having been to the parks in Paris and California, I would say that it was more like the former than the latter. There were so many people there, and they'd start queueing for the parades two hours before it starts! We didnt have much luck to begin with, having queued for over an hour for Thunder Mountain then to be told that the ride has broken down! It also started to rain in the late afternoon; there was no escaping it, we had to get a Disney raincoat.

It was quite an experience to hear Mickey speaks Japanese. We fell about laughing; the high-pitched voice is there, its the Mickey we all know and love, but speaking Japanese.　It made my day when Mickey said 'そうですか', which means 'Is that so?'. It was one of the first things they taught us in Japanese 101, and we always have to throw it in the end of our role plays.

In a moment of genius, we decided to do the human kanji for 'Genki', which looks like this 元気, meaning fit/ healthy when on the way down Splash Mountain for our group photo. There were 6 of us, so we manouvered ourselves so that we could do the twelve-strokes kanji with Sven and Jonathan doing the top strokes, Goo and Felix in the middle and Liz and I at the bottom. The picture is great, though it is with Jonathan at the mo so will post it up when I get a copy.