Tokyo Disneyland (Volume II)

So I was going to try and put up more Disneyland pictures, as well as pics of things that I've been doing since then, but for some reason I can't get any more pictures to load. Sorry about that, but I'm gonna try to figure it out and post more pics ASAP.

Tokyo Disneyland (Volume I)

So here's a few pictures from the trip I took to Tokyo Disneyland with Meletina. It was pretty much like the one in California, but super awesome. Meletina and I spent all of Thursday there, and then spent that night in a hostel in Tokyo. I'm sorry if the pictures seem a little out of order (they're both mine and Meletina's, but they got all mixed up).

On the train to Tokyo.
We kind of got lost...okay not really. We just got on the slow train (express trains only stop at major stations and take a lot less time). We finally transferred to an express train about an hour after we got on the train.

Our note:

First entrance to Tokyo Disney

Meletina and I at the Mickey

Another entrance to Disneyland

Their mainstreet is covered with glass

Cinderella's Castle
Cinderella's Castle & Me

Lunch

It's a Small World

A super cute UP! display in Adventureland.
Outside Pirates of the Caribbean. The longest wait was 3 minutes.
To infinity and beyond!
Toontown!
Making some lemonade.
Goofy's house.
Searching the high seas.

Negishi Horse Museum

Way back in the day (like 125 years ago) Negishi was a horse track on top of a hill. I have an amazing view of what remains of the grandstands from my room. CJ and I went to the horse museum on the other side of the park, which talked about the history of the horse track and horses in general. It was pretty cool, but most of it was in Japanese. There was a mannequin in traditional samurai dress sitting on a stuffed horse, but I couldn't talk a picture of it. I did take some pictures in the area that they allow you to take pictures in, which talks about the history of the Negishi race track. Here's what I see out of my window every morning:
Here's a horse statue right outside the museum

Picture of the race track

Old photograph of the early grandstand (I think)

Racing horses

The grandstand not long after it was first built. There's a section in the right side of the picture that isn't there anymore (as well as the canopy). Not quite sure what happened to them, but the area was damaged during WWII.

A 1:200 scale of the grandstand

One of the prizes awarded to winners

Another prize

Horse statue in the park

Japanese signs are really funny...not sure what this says, but apparently horses in Japan have stars in their eyes

CJ under the gate leading to the park

One of the parks around Negishi. This one is on the back side of our barracks, while the grandstand and another park are on the front side.

F.Y.I.
Meletina and I went to Tokyo Disneyland yesterday, so watch out for an update of epic proportions in the next couple days.

Yokosuka and the Downpour

CJ and I went to Yokosuka on Tuesday. We spent the afternoon walking around the Daiei (dye-aye), which is a huge mall by the train station, and ate some sushi (my first!). Later that evening we met up with the rest of our staff on the Yokosuka base for a briefing about climbing Mt. Fuji, which we're doing on August 7th.

These were some photos we took on the boardwalk by the Daiei. Not quite sure who or what they are:

Koi fish outside a pet shop. Not nearly as big as the ones in the pond by the barracks.

Lobster

Cute Chihuahua puppies. These are one of the most popular dogs in Japan.

We went into a supermarket, and they had displays of animals made out of hot dogs. These are otters and penguins.

These ones are elephants, pigs, monkeys and penguins.

Kraft American cheese...

I'm gonna miss Japan when I can't get mango everywhere. They sell mango juice!

Crazy ice-cream flavors...

Coolish! The only vanilla ice cream in a pouch...and it's so good!

I always love to try on the most ridiculous pair of sunglasses...

Anpanman getting some love from CJ!

My first sushi...tuna rolls, and it was delicious!

Water, miso soup and shrimp sushi...YUM!

Not sure what this sign was for, but apparently at the train station you can hula hoop on the left side.

So it rained...hard. We cheated and took a taxi from the train station instead of walking the 15 minutes. This is what we looked at after walking for 3 minutes from the main gate to the barracks.