Disney by the Sea

Tuesday morning we hopped a cab to Disney Sea as we couldn't deal with 3 trains during rush hour. We arrived bright and early around 7:30am to find out that the normal 8am opening time had been moved to 9am for this day only. Even the following Tuesdays were all 8am starts when we checked the schedule. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Joining another orderly Japanese line we waited patiently for the gates to open. Once in we jetted straight to get a fast pass for the Toy Story ride which is really popular. After 20 minutes inside the Disney wait times app was saying the line was 3hrs long.

We lined up for the Finding Nemo ride and had Willow measured, she had to be over 90cm in height which she made by a few cm. The nice lady gave her a wrist band which she was pretty excited about. 

So big!

Before the nemo ride they explain how you get shrunk down in the nemo sub.

Next ride which was nearby was Aquatopia, we could see it had a relatively short queue(like 45 minutes). 

Monkey business

We went for a walk around the park and got to the Arabic Aladdin town. The sets at Disney Sea are amazing, each area has it's own theme and they have a lot of detail. The shortest line we could see was the merry go round so we went on that. Willow made friends with a small Japanese boy in the line and they were chasing each other around which made the line go a lot quicker this time.

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing

New friend

Venice set.

It was nearly time for our fast pass to use on the Toy Story ride so we found another ride to queue up for half an hour in which was some sort of crab ride.

Hi mummy!

Disney is exhausting for everyone.

The toy story ride was a 3D ride where you had to shoot targets with a rubber dart game as you rolled along. It was pretty fun, also it kept score on the dashboard. This one was easily my favourite but I still cannot believe people sit in line for 3hrs for it.

Even though there was 2 people on the girls team I still managed the upset.

We had topped up the fast passes for the Finding Nemo ride since it was such a hit and went back to do it a second time. 

Video until I was told to turn my phone off by the Disney staff

Willow has been used to having people say "kawaii" at her this holiday, but it hasn't been so prolific as Disney Sea. Aside from the usual casual kawaii, we had groups of girls coming up and shrieking kawaii at her for a good couple of minutes. Willow seemed to think this was all relatively normal too. Who can blame them? Our child is gorgeous.

Pretty happy with herself

Under the sea.

Bubble girl

After the sun had gone down and we had some authentic Italian food, we went to camp out for the night parade and fireworks by the water. It was a pretty amazing show and it was nice we didn't have to wait another half hour like the other Disney for the fireworks after the show(we actually caught the other Disney's fireworks while walking for the train home.