A little after 4 we headed out to the main entrance and requested a Lyft. Time to go to Dinner! The Lyft came along pretty quickly and we were at the Boardwalk in good time.
We sat on the Boardwalk for a little bit and got our table ready text shortly before our reservation time. We were seated right next to the kitchen, by the pizza oven which was cool to watch. That is a busy (and well oiled machine!) kitchen!. Nick immediately announced that the restaurant smelled even better at dinner than it had at breakfast and that that was saying something, and I had to agree with him.
Dinner was amazing. This is becoming my every trip restaurant. It’s just so good! And it’s so good without being excessively expensive (for Disney) or fancy. The ciabatta bread was fantastic (but I would have preferred butter rather than olive tapenade). I had the molto bello to drink which was basically a more tart (but still VERY drinkable) version of that Italian margarita I’d had from the festival, and the pizze bianca. Nick had the Tuscan Sour to drink and the lasagna. The flavors of our food were outstanding, and everything was cooked perfectly. The pizze bianca was a nice way to have a lighter but still really excellent meal, which worked out well for my evening plans!
Once we’d eaten as much as possible, we headed for the bus stop, with a detour for me to show Nick the creepiest chairs in all of Disney!
We got to the bus stop just as a bus to the Magic Kingdom closed its doors. Thankfully, the driver realized we were going there and reopened the doors to let us on the bus. I don’t remember if there were any detours, but we were at the Magic Kingdom fairly quickly. Nick headed for the French Quarter bus stop and I headed for the park.
Here, I got pulled for the bag check table. I strongly suspect it was the tin of mints that had been added to my backpack before dinner (that I obviously forgot to give to Nick even though they were a) his and b) his request…oops!). That was the only difference from my other park entries. The process was easy enough but it’s been so long since I’ve done a hands on bag check in Disney that I forgot I had to unzip the bag for them. Slow down. But I wasn’t really rushing to anything. So keep those tins of mints out of the park bag people!
Shortly after getting into the park I got a text from him that his bus was entirely guys and he was calling it the "f it I'm done" bus. I got a good laugh out of it!
I did some picture taking of the last of the statues and the castle at sunset.
Then I decided to kill some time with the Little Mermaid ride. It was posted as a 30 minute wait. More like 12.
Then it was time to take pictures of the castle on the (long) way to the Hub for Enchantment.
I was quite disappointed that the Hub grass where I had watched the fireworks from this summer is now reserved for VIPs. Lame. Thankfully I was solo, so I found a small patch of real estate to squeeze into. There was still quite awhile before the fireworks. I killed time facebook spamming and texting.
Enchantment was good. I had only ever seen Happily Ever once, so I wasn’t attached to it at all, and I never liked Wishes. Again, I think there’s too much reliance on projections, but it was well done, and the music definitely spoke to me given where life is these days. I’d watch Enchantment again.
After Enchantment, I joined the masses leaving the park. It was a seriously crowded day. They had intense gating set up to queue people for the ferries and were loading two ferries to the parking lot simultaneously.
I didn’t have to wait very long for a bus, and, as the announcements say, I was “home soon”.
We decided not to pack until morning and I think both of us stayed up later than necessary purely out of denial that this amazing vacation was ending already.
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