We were in the area and decided to make, what I thought would be, a quick trip to Cookie Time. This place is known for their cookie dough flavors they scoop out onto cones like ice cream.
It is always crowded in Harajuku.
We stumbled upon a place called UnicornLand and had to check it out.
I paid the dollar to actually make the unicorns go around, probably not something I would have splurged on for the kids in my younger years. haha.
It was just this completely decked out little shop that mainly sold some sort of shake or smoothie with cotton candy on top. I debated getting one but wanted to save room for Cookie Time, it is after all for serious cookie munchers.
Too bad for us there was a line out the door. It wasn't crazy long, but they were crazy slow! I couldn't believe how slow the line went. I'm sure we were in line over an hour and a half. It was hard with Calista getting everything. There was not room for the stroller. I had to feed Beatrix, and try to plug my phone into the wall somewhere so it wouldn't die before we knew the way home. Not fun!
Calista made some friends. She seriously played with these two Japanese women for about half an hour while I was in line. It was a life saver.
It was around six when we got to the front of the line. So this was our dinner! The Harajuku milkshake. It was basically an expensive strawberry shake with whip cream on top. It didn't taste spectacular, pretty average.
But it sure did look fun.
We also got the biggest chocolate cookie dough creation they had. This was good!
We couldn't finish it all after the shake. It even has a mini cone inside the cone! It was pretty cool.
Was it worth the wait? Probably if you don't have much else to do. Not if you have been out all day with three children and one of them is a toddler who likes to take everything off the shelves while you are in line.
We got another picture on the way to the train station. Still crowded. Leon was so fun to hang out with. We don't spend a lot of time together without the other kids and it was nice. He just goes with the flow and I don't think he once complained or even asked for food, which seemed odd because we pretty much skipped dinner.
The hour and a half train ride home was pretty horrible. Probably my worst yet. It was very very packed. Have you seen those videos of people pushing and cramming others onto the train? It was that packed. I didn't think we would fit on, but we did, and then 20 more people behind us also magically fit on. The problem was we had a stroller. Not friendly for crowds. Calista was in the stroller and the people pushing on couldn't see the stroller that was preventing everyone from squishing properly. The stroller even got half tipped over (it couldn't tip all the way because people were standing all around it) and started to cave in on Calista. It was a little scary. The people around us were trying to help hold it open but new people were pushing on making it super hard. Both Calista and Beatrix were screaming. After a couple stops we were able to get it straitened out and opened properly. It was probably only 15 minutes of extremely crowded. Remind me to never get on a train leaving the heart of Tokyo at 7pm again.
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