charmama4
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2009
KFC and cakes at Christmas??!! I thought that was a myth till we moved here (Okinawa) and now it is a tradition that we will bring back to the states with us. Just one little memory of a wonderful place...Nothing wrong with disagreeing....WDWFigment thinks very highly of DisneySea which is clearly evident in his blog; to the point he considers it the best Disney park in the world, to which I agree without any reservation. It may be true that DisneySea doesn't "go all out" like WDW but the decorations are thematically appropriate to each land with many unique features. WDWFigment may be biased due to his love for the park so that may account for his "don't even remotely agree" statement. I'm pretty sure he has been to WDW during November-December...in fact here are some links to some excellent trip reports he's written:
http://www.disneytouristblog.com/disney-world-christmas-2010-trip-report/
http://www.disneytouristblog.com/christmas-2008-trip-report-pt-i/
Again, I agree that the Japanese don't go all out during Christmas like we do in America...you said it yourself when saying it wasn't a nationally recognized holiday. We just spent our first Christmas in Japan last year and boy were my kids going nuts because we had to wait for my sister-in-law to come home from work Christmas Day before we could open presents! However, there are some nice traditions that the Japanese share; for instance, the fried Chicken dinners (you should've seen the lines in front of KFC on Christmas Eve!!) and the neat Christmas cakes that are really cute and tasty. We did both and it was a lot of fun spending time with my wife's family sharing in their traditions while mixing in some of our American ones.
Loving your TR by the way. We will visit TDR in May (no, not during Golden Week, eek!). And this is helping to get all of us excited for it!