Part 1: Childish Glee

"Shinji, we shouldn't park here." Asuka examined the vast park. She already knew that it would be a long walk towards the Disney Land entrance and if they took the trolley to get there it would take hours. The Disney parking trolley, which would drive them to the main entrance of the Amusement Park, would take too long. It would have to stop in 50 different sections of the Disney parking lot until it stopped at the entrance.

She looked at Shinji, who had a frown on his face. "We should just park in our hotel parking lot. It's only three blocks from Disneyland. In fact, we should have done that in the first place instead of going to this place."

Shinji sighed, and ran a hand through his hair. "Yeah, you're right, we'll park at the hotel." He glanced at Asuka for a second. She looked quite tired today, he thought. He guessed that it was because of last night in their hotel room. Okoye could not sleep at all last night and had been crying loudly. Asuka had given the child milk, yet still the baby did not quieted. It wasn't until Asuka had awakened Shinji, to ask him to sing to the child that Okoye did finally get to sleep. His singing seemed to have an affect to their youngest son that it shocked him.

Maybe during their first day at the amusement park, he should let Asuka sit and rest for a while, while he took his oldest son, Sujin, to ride some of Disney rides. He smiled. How his oldest son looked more like him yet acted more like Asuka. Besides Sujin being excited about coming to America and getting to see the America's Disneyland, Shinji, too, felt childish glee.

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The Ikari family walked towards the Disney Land entrance. Asuka held the tickets in one hand while the other hand held Sujin's small one's. The boy was jumping with excitement. "Disneyland! Disneyland!" he exclaimed. The boy frowned when his mother silenced him. "Calm down, Sujin. We'll be in there in just a second." Asuka handed the tickets to the ticket lady. The ticket lady smiled at Sujin. "Aww, how cute. This is his first time here?" the old lady asked Asuka referring about Sujin. The young mother laughed slightly and responded, "Oh, yes, it's his first time going here. In fact it's my sons, my husband and also my first time coming here." The ticket lady took a map from her pocket and handed it to Asuka. "Then you'll need this."

"Wow!" Shinji exclaimed when they got in the amusement park. The small baby he held giggled softly. Shinji looked at his wife with a wide grin. "I feel young again, Asuka."

His wife laughed her beautiful laugh. "I feel…quite old just being around all these young people. Has it been 23 years, that I've lived…or maybe it was 50 years so far?" She joked. "Hmm, not quite sure, you don't look 50." Shinji gazed at her lovingly. "You turned 23 last month…or maybe I lost count or something." He said.

"Baka." Asuka smiled. A sudden tugging at the left sleeve of her shirt caused Asuka to look down questioningly. "Where's Mickey Mouse, Okasan?" The blue eyes of the youth stared into Asuka's blue one's in wonder. "I don't see Mickey Mouse anywhere. Where is Mickey Mouse and his friends?" The child pouted.

"Look at the map." Shinji said. Asuka looked at the map and schedules. "Mickey Mouse should be in Tomorrow Land at 5:00 PM today, I think. Check if I'm right."

Asuka looked at the small paper in her hands. " 'Meet Mickey and Friends at the land of the Future, Tomorrow Land, at 5:00 PM.'" She read, "Yes, you were right, it's at 5:00."

Shinji looked at his son. "Where do you want to go to first, Sujin? We can't see Mickey Mouse right now, we have to wait at least two hours and a half until Mickey Mouse comes out."

"Can we eat first?" the boy asked.

"We ate two hours ago, and you're still hungry?"

Sujin nodded his head. "Let's get some rides out of the way and then we'll get you something to eat." Asuka said. Everyone agreed with the plan. "Let's check out Town Square first, I heard they're going to have a parade starting soon." Sujin's eyes went wide with excitement.

"A parade? Let's go see the parade! Mickey might be there!" he exclaimed. The family walked under the Disney Train Station and into Town Square. Upon them they saw Disney characters of every known Walt Disney Movies parading down, what they guess, was Town Square. Shinji hurriedly took out his camera from his pocket and began taking pictures.

Author's Note:

Did you like that? I hope so. I'm working on the next chapter, which will be up next week. This story does begin happy and carefree (like some) though don't worry, this fanfic is not all 'happy, happy, joy, joy'; in the coming chapters ahead you'll see what I mean. Please Review.

--Etsuriko