Disneyland & JIU Festival

I had a somewhat busy weekend with a 1-day-trip to Disneyland on Friday, while I also took a small trip to the JIU Festival on Sunday.

Friday started off with getting up at 6 am, so we could catch a train that arrived at Togane Station at 6:47 am or something. We (me, Øistein and Tor Erling) arrived at around 6:30 am, Ingrid and Yong was already ahead of us since they were going to meet up with a Chinese girl named Agnes.

Train arrived, and to my surprise, there were already a buttload of people on the train, hell even plenty of students (junior or senior high, I assume). Of course I was so god damn tired that I had to try and sleep while standing in the train. But the train constantly shaking, friends poking me and making fun of me made the task rather hard. We switched train (line) at Soga Station, and met up with another Japanese girl (which I don't remember the name of) and a Chinese girl named AiAi (? help me, I suck with memorizing names!).

I don't remember the name of the station that we went off at...but hey, at least we did arrive at Tokyo Disneyland (which is actually located in Chiba-ken, and not Tokyo). Also, the Japanese Tokyo Disneyland Resort Line is waaaaaay prettier then the one in Hong Kong. Which I find rather funny since Tokyo Disneyland have been going on for 25 years, while the one in Hong Kong have been around for 3 years.

Either way, we arrived outside of Tokyo DisneySea about 15 minutes before the theme park was open. And we were greeted by Yuno and Maki (Ingrid and Yong's conversation partners). Since there were still some times left, we stood outside and had some chitchatting. Meanwhile another Chinese boy (again, which I don't remember the name of) and a Japanese girl named Iku joined us as well.

Park opened, and to my surprise, plenty of people ran off to the various attractions. Of course my group of people did the same, and since I didn't want to lose sight of them, I ran after them as well. After some running, we arrived at the first attraction which was Tower of Terror. Since it looked rather scary and I am not quite fond of such attractions; me, Tor Erling, AiAi and Iku stood outside and waited for the other. We had some small conversations with them so we could know them a little bit better.

After the wait, we headed to the part of the theme park which was somehow related to Indiana Jones. Took 2 different "rollercoaster" rides, which was pretty fun, but I already forgot the name of those 2 attractions. <_<

After the two aforementioned rollercoaster rides, we took a small break at the Arabian part of the theme park to get some food. Afterwards we took some pictures together with Mickey and Minnie, and went to some volcano-like attraction. The rollercoaster ride (which is named "Journey to the Center of the Earth") wasn't too bad, until the very last part of the ride, which made me feel rather unwell afterwards. I guess...it could've been worse.

So, what happened afterwards? Well, most people took some of the same rides over again, and since I wasn't taking any of the rides, I took care of some of the hand baggages while waiting for them. To avoid dragging this entry even further, a short summary of the rest of the day.

- Explored a little bit more of the park.

- Watched Chip 'n Dale playing some catchy songs with kitchen equipments as music instruments.

- I bought a cap, woho! (sorry, no pictures).

- Maki and the other Japanese girl that I don't remember the name of, had to leave a bit earlier.

- We went to eat. Food was neither good or bad, but the pricing was rather meh.

- Took some more relaxing on-rail rides during an one hour periode. Fun? Yes.

- Looooooong day, DisneySea closed at 9 pm. Said "Bai bai" to Yuno and Iku, and took the train back together with the Chinese exchange students. I think we didn't get back to our apartments till 11 pm or so. But hey, fun and memorable day!

My university had a festival from Saturday till Monday. I didn't go on Saturday since I still didn't feel well from the last rollercoaster ride on Friday. Most of the booths on the festival was selling different kind of food. The Norwegian booth was selling mashed potatoes and meat balls. There were also various activities located in the classrooms, but me and Tor Erling were rather lazy with going there. There was also a scene where various events took place. But I didn't stay at the campus long enough to watch the more interesting ones.

I'll finish this blog entry with the remaining pictures from DisneySea, that I took with my cell phone camera.