Tuesday, Dec. 31 - New Year's Eve
We had a very distinct plan for New Year's Eve. As you know, it's a very busy days at WDW and a plan is needed.
We started out the day by sleeping in again and then we headed to Hollywood Studios around 2pm. We had a 3pm ADR for the Fantasmic! dinner package at 3pm at Mama Melrose.
The park was wall to wall people as we made our way from the entrance to the restaurant. Even the lobby of the restaurant and outside the restaurant was mobbed with people. Once again we saw family after family get turned away at the podium because they didn't have reservations.
We checked in and waited about 20-30 minutes to be seated.
Our server was Megan. Oh my goodness, she was fabulous! Despite the fact that she said she was working something insane like 16+ hours that day, she was in such a good mood and joked around with us. We were playing a Disney parks trivia game that we found on our iphones at the table while waiting for our food and she overheard us and wanted to play. She said we should try to stump her. She was very knowledgeable but we did stump her with a few questions.
Because we were on the Fantasmic! package, we got appetizers for this meal in addition to the normal entree, dessert & drinks.
3 of us got the
Caesar Salad - with crisp romaine lettuce, Caesar dressing and herb croutons $5.99
DH got Vegetarian Minestrone - with ditalini pasta $ 5.99
Of course we also got bread. It came with butter and dipping oil.
For entrees, DD17, DH and I all got
Oven-baked Chicken alla Parmigiana - with marinara sauce topped with melted mozzarella over spaghetti $18.99
This was perfectly cooked and in my opinion, delicious!
DD21 got
Chicken Campanelle - wood-grilled chicken over Campanelle pasta tossed with four-cheese sauce with broccoflower, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh spinach and sweet onions $18.99
For dessert, I asked if I could get something I've seen on the disboards a few times and I really wanted to try it. I know it's from the kids menu, but it looked so cute!
Spaghetti and Meatball Cupcake - a chocolate cupcake with "spaghetti" frosting and a chocolate "meatball" with a strawberry "marinara sauce" and white chocolate "cheese" $3.49
DD17 got the chocolate cake:
DH got the cheesecake. This was also very good!
After dinner we were very excited to go see the Comedy Warehouse Holiday Special show. They had this last year too and it was hilarious!
I don't know if we got a bad crowd or just an off show, but it wasn't as funny this time around.
After the show, we had fp+ for Tower of Terror. DH and DD21 went on that while DD17 and I went to save our spots for Fantasmic!
They arrived literally just as the show was starting but they made it and found us with no problem at all. The theater was completely packed!
Despite the fact we've been to WDW 33 times, we have only seen this show about 3 times. So it was like seeing something brand new and I remembered why I loved it! Great show!!
These aren't the best quality, but here's a few photos from the show:
After the show, DH and DD21 raced ahead to use the other 2 fp+ we had for Tower of Terror (they made it before the show at the beginning of our time window and at after the show at the end of the time window).
Then everyone except me went on Star Tours, again with fp+. I get a little motion sick in that ride, so I skip it now.
Then we went to see the Osborne Lights! My favorite thing at WDW at Christmastime!
Photos from that coming up next...