Disney Sea

Disneyland has California Adventures, Disney World has Epcot Center, Tokyo Disney has Disney Sea, a mostly water themed park which is where we spent day two of our three days of Disney while in Tokyo. the decor of Disney Sea was very unique and very nice. While Disneyland was decorated mostly for Halloween, Disney Sea was had more of an Autumn masquerade theme to it. The entrance was done up like a Venetian waterfront. Somewhere in there, there is a hotel. It's actually inside the park itself. If Lisa and I ever make it back, and we don't have little kids we're totally going to stay there.

Just inside the entrance to the park for some reason I got the feeling like I might have been at Universal Studios instead of Disney.

Venice, a Mediterranean Port and a Volcano (Mt Vesuvius?) are all part of the water front theme here.

They also gave their take on American culture with a colonial New England town... Cape Cod maybe. It was funny, while we were in this section of the park Lisa and I both said that while we really enjoy living overseas we were looking forward to being back in the states for more than a few weeks like it has been the last few years. Don't get too excited Grandie, we're still looking at going to Europe after Virginia. Of course, Coryn had to check out the old fire department.

He was also pretty keen on going aboard the ocean liner Columbia in a turn of the century New York City like port, but was a little upset that we couldn't go up to the bridge. He really wanted to pretend the drive the boat. We settled for a snack in the Theodore Roosevelt lounge on board instead. The map said they offered "light fare" but it really should have said, "light fare with five star prices." I felt a little ripped off, oh well. You don't go to Disney to save money! :)

It wasn't all oceans, and rivers and ports and harbors though. Japan's Indiana Jones ride, based of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie is in this park too.

It seemed like a lot of the rides and Sea were geared more of older kids. Most of them required that you me "this tall" to ride but there was one section that was inside a place that looked like King Triton's castle from the Little Mermaid that had an area specifically designed for little kids to play under the sea. The boys really enjoyed that area and we thought of Aunt Sarah while we were there because we saw the world's biggest nudibranch!