USJ: Jurassic Park

Jaws spat us out a little after 5. We kept on wandering, and soon arrived at Jurassic Park. The wait for this one was 120 minutes, but we all wanted to ride it, so that didn't bother us. We kept right on talking, noticing the interested stares from lots of people, especially little kids.

After a bit, Julie started getting a little irritated at a group of boys behind us. They were taking turns punching her in the butt. I swapped places with her, putting me between her and the little imps. They turned out to be three elementary schoolers. They didn't punch me in the butt.

Not five minutes after Ju and I swapped places, one of the boys asked me where we were from. This apparently officially opened communications, because as soon as we answered, they began bombarding us with questions: our ages, heights, favorite foods, and 'no, seriously, you live in Japan?' At one point, the lead boy wanted to see how far we were from the front. To his delight, I hoisted him up, and of course had to do the same for the other two afterwards.

Their mothers kept apologizing to us, periodically trying to corral the boys and get them to stop pestering us. We weren't bothered in the slightest, but of course the moms thought we were just being nice. After one of the moms brought some food, the boys all pounced on it. I almost literally mean pounced: they devoured the huge turkey drumsticks and churros as if they hadn't been fed in days.

As we expected, the food didn't keep them away for long. One of the boys started playing janken with each of us in turn, and was quite content. As we got closer, the moms gave the boys raincoats, and the boys noticed we didn't have any. I pretended not to know about the ride, and they were worried about us getting wet and being scared.

The ride was identical to the Islands of Adventure version--every bit as awesome. I actually had more fun in line, though, playing around with the kids.