More detailed Disney Land trip update

Well, last Saturday a bunch of the people on my team and I went to Tokyo Disney. It was pretty fun, but the best parts were those spent with my friends.
Anyway, we had to take a train to get there. It was about an hour, hour and a half ride. The train stop that we got off on seemed to have the sole purpose of being the Disney Land stop. There was even a little Disney souvenir vending machine at the station. Heh, I guess that's for some last-minute purchases. When we got off the train (along with the vast majority of the people on it) we had to walk along this long, elaborate outdoors bridge then down some stairs to the main gate. At this particular location, there is both "Disney Land" and "Disney Sea" (whatever that's supposed to mean). We went to just the normal "Disney Land". The price was 5,800Y (which is about 50$USA). Once we finally got into the park, my friends made a beeline towards Space Mountain where we waited in line for quite some time. An hour or two in the sun is really not a fun experience when it's not intentional. Luckily, I remembered to bring some sun screen. Space Mountain was really cool! For those of you who don't know what it is, it's basically a little roller coaster all indoors and in the dark. It was a lot of fun because you didn't know which way you were going to go. I found out later that Space Mountain was the favorite of most of my friends that went. I think it is mine, too! While we were in line, one of the people in our group (Heather, I think...?) took all of our park passes and went to get some "Fast Passes" for Splash Mountain. Basically on each ride there are two lines. One for the "normal" people., and one for the people who got fast passes. The fast pass line is about 1/4 the size of the normal line but after you get a fast pass it only becomes active after a bit more than it would have taken you if you had stood in line the entire time.
After riding Space Mountain, we visited the Pizza Port (yes, same as the one in Toy Story) and got (duh!) pizza! We hit up the Haunted Mansion after that. They had a bunch of cars that would slowly take you through the ride into different rooms that had things that would either pop up or make sounds or just act creepy. I thought the entire think was a bit hokey but I enjoyed trying to find out how they did certain special effects. I think it was finally after that that we went on Splash Mountain. That was a lot of fun. The theme was brier rabbit and went through the story. The best part was the big drop at the end. They also took a picture at the bottom of the drop. My train/log decided to do YMCA. It was fun, cuz the ride was playing "Zippie-de-do-dah" in Japanese near the end but my friends and I were singing it at the top of our lungs in English. At one point we passed some of the people looking down at us so we all waved while singing and they just snickered at us. Japanese people are so funny sometime.
After all that we all went to get Fast Passes for Thunder Mountain in "Western Land." The park was divided into like 4-5 parts and the part that is normally called "Frontier Land" is called "Western Land" here. It was there that I remembered that I had brought my umbrella with me. I have to say that I think that was the first time I've used a personal umbrella for shade and not rain protection. Anyway, while we were waiting for our Fast Passes to become active, some of the guys and I went over to "Tom Sawyer's Island" to play sardines. Steve (aka "Daywalker") was the first to hind but I think that was a bad thing cuz he has almost no inhibition on places _not_ to go. After over an hour of looking for him unsuccessfully, he found us. It ends up that he hid past the fence, behind an artificial rock, in a bush, near a speaker at the top of the island for about 40 minutes then got bored and hid over a fence in a bush by the lake for the next 30 minutes before being found by a security guard. He said the guard was real cool about it and just asked him to get out of the bush and when he made the folded hands by his head gesture the guard went "Oooh! Sleeping!"
When we went back across the little river/lake to the main park we met up with some of the other people and did some other stuffs. I distinctly remember eating turkey legs, visiting the castle, and taking "jump" photos but a lot was a blur as well. Oh, by the way, the castle was the Cinderella castle, for those who care. Under the castle, they had a Disney themed glass blown trinkets and statues store. It was funny, but three people on our team received a little glass pig (really guys, they ARE pigs!) bough from there for our June 24, 1/2 Christmas Secret Santa gift exchange all unbeknownst to each other. After it got a bit darker, we watched as the big lights parade go by through the middle of the park. They had all the ost prominent characters from Disney movies represented like Cinderella, Peter Pan, Snow White, etc but also some of the newer ones like Boo, Mike and Sully from "Monsters, Inc." and Nemo from "Finding Nemo". When the parade finished, everyone went over in front of the castle for the fireworks display only to find out after another 10 minutes of waiting that it was canceled. A LOT of people were bummed out about it and quite vocal in expressing their dismay. So, instead of a fireworks display, we went of a number of the kiddie rides. The first one we went on was the Peter Pan ride. They put you in a boat-shaped car suspended from an overhead track and "flew" you over these gorgeous dioramas of scenes from the Peter Pan movie. My favorite on in there was the "above London" scene. They had tons of little houses, Big Ben, the London Bridge, and even little laser pointer dots on the ground to simulate cars. I think that one was my 2nd favorite ride. The next kiddie ride we went on was the Snow White ride. Each car held 4 people but we had an odd number of people so I sat alone in the bench right behind Cherie and Maria. It was SO funny how they screamed at everything that popped up at every turn. I think they got more scared there than in the Haunted Mansion! I basically laughed the entire time. The last ride we went on was the "Small World" boat cruise thing. They had the little singing children, doll things throughout the ride all dressed in stereotypical outfits and such. After the ride was almost over, I leaned back and asked my friends "Hey! Where's the Americans kids?! I want to see the overweight kids waving hamburgers!" It seemed I spoke too soon, though as there were some Americans: a cowboy kid and a native American kid standing right above the final tunnel of the ride. Haha!
Psheeeewwww! It was perty fun there, yup, yup! ...dang this took a long time to write... nearly an hour! In an case, I got to get going. We have English lunch at Gakusuyuin today. Yesterday was the last day we spent at Waseda. (tear...) I can hardly believe it. I was so sure that we'd be fed up with this trip after about 3-4 weeks but here it is on the 5th week and none of us really want to leave at all! I... meh! what am I doing? I have to go! I'll write soon. Hopefully before I head to Korea, but maybe there. TTYL! Bai bai!