Raining Disney In

We have always wanted to go to Disneyland on one of those days the lines are short, and you can ride all the rides your stomach can handle. November 11 is an American holiday, thus Tim had it off. We pulled William out of school, saw the forecast was for rain, made sure we all had raingear and umbrellas, and went to Disneyland.When we got in the car to leave, we were soaked from dashing to the car in the pouring rain. I said, "Tim, are you SURE?" And so we set off. We got there at 9, and there still was a line to get in. This is looking towards the park. They were supposed to be fully decorated for Christmas, but they're running behind.
William and Tim walking towards the park. I should have put boots on William, as his tennis shoes are soaked at this point. And we've only walked from the car parking garage to the front gate, and waited to get in.
Tokyo Disney's downtown and shopping area is covered. No umbrellas were supposed to be up at this point. The big tree was up, however!
But as soon as we stepped out of the covering, we were back in the pouring rain. If you click and look, you can see how big the rain drops were. There was already a line for Monsters, Inc., a new ride here at Tokyo Disney.
So, even though we got there at 9 in the morning, and immediately went to the fast pass, by the time Tim got up there, we got 1:40 tickets.
I loved the Tiki guys all decked out for Christmas. Too fun! We got soaked on our first ride, the rocket ships. Where usually your legs are dry directly under the rain jacket, we had to sit down and lean back, and then the cloud burst happened. We were drenched. So, we went to Splash Mountain next, as we couldn't get any wetter. There was no line, so we rode it a couple times.
We finally got to go in Monsters, Inc. Woo hoo! It's called, 'Ride and Go See,' and you get flashlights. They don't do anything special, but your flashlight makes a character on the wall.
But, after about the second turn in, our cars STOPPED. Broke down! NOOooooo... We got to wait for them to show up with a step-ladder and escort us out.
We were stuck in front of this guy. Normally, Boo pops out from one of these containers. We just got to watch him deflate a bit. They gave us special passes to get back in, as soon as the ride was fixed. So, we got to see the rest of the story. Tim loved the trash compactor the best.

We rode so many rides over and over, that Tim's stomach stopped being able to do Space Mountain (I didn't even go, I know better). William was the roller coaster monster. We rode Thunder Mountain as many times as we could. That one never went below 15 minutes wait, but that isn't bad at all!

We ended up staying for the fireworks, and the rain became light enough a few times to not put up umbrellas as we dashed to the next ride. It was a great day, and we got our fill of Disney rides!