There's not a fight and I'm not your captive

Disclaimer: the light tone of this post is not meant to downplay the disasters in Japan in any way. I just need to blow off a little steam with sarcasm and wit.

            If you haven’t heard, there was a third explosion at nuclear facility at Fukashima and a good deal of Japan was irradiated.1 Sometimes I wish I remembered my camera. Yesterday, I wished I remembered photosensitive paper. Just place it behind myself a few seconds before the blast and viola, most memorable souvenir ever. Plus I get to skip the doctor's fee. Still waiting on my super powers to develop. Hope it’s nothing dumb like the ability to talk to fishes.

            I didn’t get the chance to update on the event two weeks ago. Though it is now completely overshadowed by the earthquake, I’m not going to let the photos go to waste.  The sun sucks, for which I apologize.

You guys though I was joking about going to Disney World. Well, Disney Sea technically. Luckily, there wasn’t a fire at the sea park.

For those that are wondering (all none of you), Tokyo Disney Sea and Disney Land are not owned by Disney. Whatever company owns them has to pay royalties. This led to Disney Sea being Disney in pretty much name only. Aside from the wondering Disney mascot, the characters pretty much go unrepresented. Oh, and Disney is a marketing whore (oh, he said a bad word). They created a teddy bear (Duffy) just to be sold in Disney Sea. Its paw print is in the shape of Mickey Mouse’s head, which I like to think came from Mickey cheating at poker and the bear curb stomping the unrepentant rodent.

Here’s the scoop: each class had to decide as a whole whether to go to Disney Land or Disney Sea. Mine, obviously, chose Sea. A friend of mine was trying to find somebody to go with, but her class unfortunately chose land. We were talking through text and she got confused as to which I was going to. I replied:

I’m going by sea. That’s two lanterns.

Any day you can fit in a Paul Revere reverence is a good day in my book.

At the start Disney Sea was a pain. I forgot to take out money and had only enough for the train ride there. If I hadn't run into Josh (refered to as friend for this post). I wouldn't have been able to eat or even return to the mainland.

Also, I was snacking earlier on and found a trash can (really rare in Japan). So excite was I that I accidentally threw away my ticket. Had to go digging through the trash for it.

And more pictures:

Tower of Terror. Wish I got a bigger shot. This thing was huge. Its one of the rides that takes you up really high and drops you. Me and a friend got a fast pass (allows you to bypass the line) at nine o'clock. When it became active at 6:45, it still took us half and hour to get through line of other people with fast passes. We passed the time by jearing at those in the regular line who had to wait upwards of two hours. On a side note, most everything inside is written in English. What a waste.

This ship provides a good measure of scale of the attractions here. It is a full sized ocean liner created for the specific purpose of staying docked here for the rest of its life.

My friend made the mistake of asking Max here for directions to a restaurant. After about 10 minutes of pantomime we found the place, but it was expensive and we weren't hungry yet. While Max's back was turned, we hightailed it out of there.

Not that you can tell from the picture, but this is the temple of the crystal skull. So prolific was the suck of the fourth Indiana Jones that it managed not only to sicken its fanbase, but to mount an assualt on the Disney brand from inside the park. Copyright laws be damned!

I present the temple of Firewater. There alcoholism is considered a divine right, not a sickness

Look my readers, Agrabah!

It's only a model

Shh

 Yeah, they went all out on this water show. If you look in the background you can see the Tower of Terror. Bigass, right? Furthermore, I know there has to be some empty space in it because the ride isn't that big. Wonder what they use it for?

A few final notes. The next week, the earthquake cause the transit line to shut down, so a bunch of people were stuck in the park. They must have been bled dry by overpriced food by the end. Somehow I think the Disney Corporation planned this. Also, the parking lot suffered soil liquification. I don't know how those that drove there escaped.

1: Before you start freaking out. The radiation released was less than your average x-ray.