in·clem·ent adj. 1. Stormy: inclement weather. 2. Showing no clemency; unmerciful. Fast forward to 8:28pm tonight. The Disney Sea main event presentation has just completed, when an announcement comes over the loud speaker, firstly in Japanese, and then in English, that due to "inclement weather" the nightly fireworks spectacular has been canceled. Due to inclement WHAT? WHERE???? Picture the most perfect night at a theme park imaginable, weather wise. Absolutely no clouds in the sky, very comfortable temperature, and a very slight, but pleasantly cooling breeze blowing in off Tokyo bay. That is exactly the conditions we had tonight at Disney Sea, but they still chose to cancel the fireworks. Fantastic. Disney finds yet another way to cheat it's patrons. Last night, I can understand them canceling the fireworks, but there is no way in the world the weather could have been more perfect tonight. Rewind to this morning...we had decided that since we were going to be staying late for the nightly show, and the fireworks, that we didn't need to rush off to Disneyland in the morning (because since the park doesn't shut until 10pm, we didn't see the need to make it a 10 or 11 hour day). We took the opportunity to assess the remaining days of the initerary, and our remaining finances. It finally hit home that the next leg of our journey, which was to be Hakone and Takayama, were going to cost us more in accomodation than virtually all of the rest of the trip combined. We had planned to stay in a Ryokan in Hakone for $420 per night, and when we weighed up the cost of the Ryokan room to the cost of the hotel we are staying in now, at $88 per night, we simply couldn't justify it. Were it to be a single night, we would probably have been able to justify it, but we were scheduled to stay in Hakone for 3 nights.Yes the Ryokan would have been nice, but I guess we just aren't $420 per night kind of people. We did the investigations, and found that Hakone is a 35 minute train ride from where we are now, so we decided to book the hotel we are in now for another 3 nights. On the whole, Yokohama is a very handy city. It is located very close to everything, and is yet somehow more laid back and friendly than Tokyo, or even Osaka from our experience. So we plan to still do all of the activities we had planned in Hakone, and simply come back to Yokohama each night to sleep. We left the next leg of the journey to Takayama intact. Takayama is a 4hr+ trek from here, and we still want to go home with one authentic Ryokan experience. Takayama will be $300 per night, but this includes breakfast and dinner for both us and Charlotte and Angela, plus we will only be staying for 2 nights, so is isn't as painful on the wallet. So after the mad changing of plans was all done, we headed off for Disneyland, arriving at about 1:30pm. Wall to wall people again, but since we'd seen practically the entire park on Wednesday, somehow it didn't bother me as much. It was more relaxing, and we simply took our time and went from place to place at our own pace, rather than rushing around like we did a few days ago. We had more rides today than any other day too. We got to ride on all of the rides in Tomorrowland, including the racing cars, which were driven by Charlotte and Angela. We had to ride them twice, and there was still screams when we left them. We went into the 3d "honey I shrunk the audience" show, which we realised we had actually jumped the queue for. There were some people at the doorway talking, and there did not appear to be a queue, so we just walked to the door and were ushered in. When we looked out at the (now closed) doorway though, there was a long line of unhappy looking Japanese people looking in at us from the queue, which snaked around the opposite side of the building to where we came from. Oh well, we'll call that the Australian version of Fastpass. A few other rides, such as the Buzz lightyear ride where you shoot aliens, and a rocketship carousel type ride, and it was time for the afternoon parade. The usual singing and dancing, which went for far too long. We worked our way around to the Teacups, and the Small World ride that we went on on Wednesday, and it was almost time to make our way over to Disney Sea, as we had decided to watch the Disney Sea presentation and fireworks instead of the Disneyland one. Time for one more ride, which was on Space Mountain. Charlotte and I went on it, and it was basically a very fast indoor rollercoaster in which you basically plummet through blackness, with the only thing you can see is stars and planets. You have no idea when the rollercoaster is going to turn, dip or climb, because you cannot see the track. Definitely a fun ride. One of Charlottes favourites, and a good way to finish our Disneyland experience. We caught the monorail around to Disney Sea, and staked out a spot on the waterfront for prime viewing position for the final presentation and fireworks. The final presentation was very spectacular, but at the same time a little underwhelming. The Disney Sea presentation yesterday was excellent, consisting of many boats and floats on the water all moving about. Since this was so good, I expected the nightly main event presentation to be just as good, but it just was not as specacular as it could have been. Basically the show started out with fountains and a lightshow, and then went on to show a dragon, which emerged from the centre of the lake. The dragon emitted jets of flames, and the surface of the water caught fire in huge patterns. The fountains of water continued to fire, and intermittently some very loud fireworks would erupt. It sounds very spectacular, and it was, but at the same time it could have been so much better if there were more happening, other than just water fountains and a dragon that catches fire. When this was followed by the announcement that the fireworks was cancelled because some genius got the weather forecast for Tokyo and New Orleans mixed up, it left us with a sour note on which to end our Disneyland experience. I'm pretty sure I can rest assured that I'm not the only one questioning the reasoning behind the fireworks cancellation though. Tomorrow morning we pack up, and head to Kawasaki for one night, before coming back to this hotel in good old Yokohama for 3 nights. Kawasaki is only 15 minutes away, so it isn't a problem. We would have preferred to stay here if there were any vacancies, but alas no cancellations. But on the plus side we get to see a new city. I'm expecting Kawasaki to be similar to Yokohama, but we will find out tomorrow.