April 09, 2008

Hurricane Tokyo


When Pui and I booked the trip to go to Tokyo with the travel agent, we went ahead and threw in a day for Tokyo DisneyLand. Turns out the day we had booked coincided with the worst weather I've ever seen in Asia. The kind of wind that shreds your umbrella the second you open it, rain falling in reams, temperatures hovering around 40; it was pretty bleak. Neither of us were that excited until we saw what happens to DisneyLand when a hurricane blows through- the throngs of people disappear. The first 6 rides of the day we were the only two people on the entire ride.
I remember riding Space Mountain when I was a kid and waiting for 2 hours in line for a 2 minute ride. Usually you get so sick of waiting in lines, an average day to DisneyLand is probably 5-6 rides. Without the lines however, we rode a total of 25 rides in 6 hours. Really the only reason we stopped at that was because we both started to go hypothermic.

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