The night before will be a late night, we probably won't get to bed until 2am or so (I figure it will take us awhile to get out of Magic Kingdom after the fireworks). We will get to sleep in a bit on this day, before getting up and getting ready for our fancy brunch reservation at Narcoosee's! I really wanted to do one of the Sunday brunches they offer (at California Grill or Narcoosee's), and this was the one we were able to get a reservation for. After reading more reviews of both, Luke has decided this is the one he'd prefer to do anyways, so hopefully it lives up to our expectations!
We have time to enjoy our meal and relax before calling an Uber to take us to the Give Kids the World Village
We both signed up to volunteer for a 3 hour shift on New Year's Eve (since we really wanted to avoid going to the parks on this day). I forget exactly what we signed up for, I think it might be the ice cream place? This was something we both really wanted to do, and part of the reason we decided to extend our trip.
After volunteering, we will catch another Uber back to WDW. Depending on the time, we will either go back to Pop Century for a bit, or head straight to Disney Springs. We figure Disney Springs will be quite busy this night, but we do have a reservation at Homecomin' at 8:50pm. We've budgeted quite a bit of money for this meal, we plan on enjoying some of those amazing moonshine cocktails haha.
After our meal and drinks, we will probably just head back to Pop Century. We need to pack up anything we've unpacked, since we'll be jumping to a new hotel the next night
Park(s) Planned:
None
Fastpasses:
None
ADR's:
Narcoosee's Brunch 11:25am
Homecomin' 8:50pm
Day Three Plans - Monday, January 1st, 2018
As soon as we wake up, we need to give all of our stuff to Bell Services to deliver to our new hotel for the night. We are heading back to Give Kids the World for another volunteer shift today, from 11:30am-2:30am. I think we're doing pizza delivery for this shift? Luke has all of that information in his email.
Once our shift ends, we will catch an Uber to go check in for the night at.... the Grand Floridian! I'm so excited for this, it's a hotel that is so far out of my price range I'd never thought I'd get a chance to stay there. However, we set up a room block as part of our wedding trip, and by having a minimum of 10 confirmed room night we were eligible to receive a complimentary night in any hotel of our choosing - obviously we chose the one we can't afford on our own haha! Also, since most of our guests are coming for a week, we have over 70 confirmed room nights - but we still only get 1 night free. Oh well, we'll make the most of it, and enjoy it!
We'll check in, and go to see our room before our supper reservation at 1900 Park Fare (so we don't have far to travel for this one!) We had booked supper at this restaurant on our first trip in 2016, but I ended up getting really sick that day and we had to cancel it, then we just couldn't squeeze it in anywhere on our 2017 trip - so I'm looking forward to finally getting to eat there with Cinderella and her step-sisters.
We'll spend the rest of the night enjoying the hotel, and its beautiful lobby
Back to back days without the parks will probably drive me crazy haha - especially being on the monorail and so close to Magic Kingdom, but Luke only has 10 day tickets and this day would require adding on another day (which I know would be super cheap, but it also gives us a reason to just stick around the Grand and explore).
Sorry, the plans for these two days are pretty boring, but it might be nice to relax before the craziness of the next 12 days...
Park(s) Planned:
None
Fastpasses:
None
ADR's:
1900 Park Fare 6:35pm