Team Schmidt Travels

Friday, June 27th This morning was our last morning in Tokyo. We ate breakfast, packed up, and sent some of our things home with Bethie and Erik. As I had bought quite a few articles of clothing / necessary items, we were having a difficult time getting everything into our bags. Erik and Bethie to the rescue!  We bought a box in the lobby, packed away some items we won’t need again on the trip, and Bryan walked it over to their hotel.  Then we took the shuttle to the train station, and the commuter trains to Tokyo station, and then scanned our tickets for the bullet train to Kyoto.  The bullet train reminds me of airplane travel, but more spacious. It was past noon at this time, so we nibbled on snacks we had brought with us, Dylan sharing around strawberry KitKats with everyone. Since I can’t have KitKats, he shared some Oreos with me. I really like Oreos, so I enthusiastically bit into one. I cannot recommend the Japanese Oreos. They are not as sweet, don’t have as much...

Thursday:  June 26, 2025 Today we are doing a second day in Tokyo DisneySea, and this time Dylan is joining us. We chose a slower start again today. It is hot, and no rain today to cool us off. But there is a breeze, so that is nice.  The park feels much busier than our first day here, and especially so when compared to yesterday in Disneyland. So we are zeroing in on what are our “must dos” for the day. I really wanted to do Frozen, since it is the only ride in the park I haven’t done yet. However, the paid fast passes were not available by the time we were in the park. And the wait time has been 140 minutes at the lowest.  We went to Journey to the Center of the Earth again first. The wait grew by an hour as we walked and at more than 2 hours wait we decided to pay for fast passes for later. We went to Nemo’s Surfrider and it was a very reasonable 20 minute wait. And we were surprised and pleased to learn that they have different segments just like a Star Tours ride. So...