Today is a leisurely day for me. I was planning to take the Skinkansen back to Mishima to meet Mom after her conference, but she found a couple of new friends who are planning to take a Greyhound-type bus from the conference hotel to Tokyo, which saved me a LOT of time, so I took my time getting ready. I sat and read my book club book for a good long while until she WhatsApp'd me that the bus had left Mishima. I then left the hotel and made my way to go meet up with her.
I took a train from Maihama (pronounced: my-i-ha-mah) which is the train station nearest Tokyo Disneyland, to Shibuya, a section of Tokyo. We had WhatsApp'd and agreed to meet in the Waiting Room on the 4th floor. Shortly after I got there she called and said she was on the 3rd floor, where the bus had arrived and could I come there and meet her new friends. After a few minutes I found the escalator to the 3rd floor and found her! Yay! It worked! We dropped her off and I found her again, all in a foreign country navigating public transportation!
After bidding her friends goodbye we found a sandwich shop and had a quick bite as it was now about 1:00 pm and we were hungry. It was a 30 minute ride back to the Disneyland bubble. I found the train line we wanted and got on board. We rode and chatted and I suddenly realized that the stops I had seen on my way into Tokyo proper weren't the ones I was seeing now. We had gotten on the wrong train! Yikes! And she had just complimented me on how well I was doing with it all *face palm* Like when you're on the freeway and realize you're going the wrong way, we got off, went downstairs, and came back up on the other track headed back the way we came. We had to change again in Tokyo Station which is a nightmare to navigate, but I found the right path and we were soon arriving at Maihama Station, switching to the Monorail and getting off at the DisneySea Station. She chuckled a few times along the way as we got close to and then entered the Disney bubble at all the characters on posters and the people wearing Disney outfits and whatnot.
We got to the hotel and had to stop at the front desk to show her passport so they could list her as staying in the hotel. We knocked on the guys' door and she got to say hi and let them know she's back. We went to our room next door, cooled off and watched some sumo, which she didn't get to do at the conference cuz she was busy all day.
The guys went back to Disneyland, which is the park they had been at today, and for dinner Mom and I went to Ikspiari and looked at all the restaurants until we chose one we liked. She had a ground chicken and fried rice bowl with miso soup and I had a curry with cheese and rice dish with miso soup.
We stopped at the grocery store in Ikspiari and picked up some breakfast for tomorrow and went back to the room and crashed. She is amused with the way is decorated, all the Disney character touches in the wallpaper, the amenities, the wall hangings and pictures. She's not a Disney Adult. And that's ok.
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