Day 3: Sunday

Now it's Sunday and another dizzying round of choices on food. What sounds good today?

Persistence paid off today and we were finally able to score our coveted reservations for Le Cellier. And even, better a great time at 5:30 Tuesday. We booked are entire week's meals today and now have to plan our activities.

Today we started late with danishes by the water and enjoyed reading the paper and relaxing.

We have tickets for the Very Merry Christmas Party tonight at Magic Kingdom and this is Rick's first time going during this event.

We drove to Magic Kingdom since we wanted to go on the Monorail. It was then we realized we made a mistake. We arrived at the monorail station and the monorails weren't working... It's Sunday and busy and the only way to get to the park was ferry. We waited forever!

It was during this wait I looked on my phone and found out that the monorail had power failure the night before leaving 300 people stranded for 2-3 hours. Knowing our luck, we were fortunate we didn't end up on that train, as there would have been NO WAY I was going to climb down a 30 ft ladder.

Lunch at Tony's Town Square was good as well. More pasta which was super filling and super delicious. The atmosphere was great. View of Main Street and the Christmas decorations was fun to see while we enjoyed a mountain of pasta. This restaurant is themed from "Lady and the Tramp" and offered neat movie memoribilia.

Scored another win in the reservation department with California Grill and Wave at Contemporary for later in the week. We were sad to see the Concourse Steakhouse is gone, but are looking forward to a great meal and view of the fireworks on Wednesday night.

Very Merry Christmas party: This is a fun event which features "SNOW" on Main Street, Fireworks, a parade and best of all, short waits at all the attractions. We were committed to spending the entire time maximizing the ticket price and chance to eat more, ride more, and watch more than usual.

Started at Splash Mountain and like all the other hundred or so times I've been on this ride, walked off with a few drops of water and another opportunity to purchase a picture with my eyes closed. Went to Thunder Mtn and watched the parade and fireworks.

No open restaurants, so we were stuck with the ominous burger and fries. First time we've eaten from the quick service restaurant and hopefully the last. YUCK!!!! The burger wasn't particularly wonderful and settled worse... and we'll leave it at that.

Hot Cocoa and Cookies were everywhere and we had our fair share. Dinner served!

Fireworks are one of Disney's specialties and today didn't disappoint. The fireworks were perfect and were choreographed to the holiday music. We had a great spot to view outside Liberty Square.

After the parade, Rick had a fantastic idea to go back on Splash Mountain. It's now almost 11 and the wind is picking up a little. But since we'd been on once before and there was no line, I went along for the ride. We ended up in the front row, not concerning since no one ever seems to get wet on this ride... UNTIL NOW!

We got stuck in a log jam at the base of the drop and got DRENCHED when a boat went down the falls. Then it was our turn down the drop and again, SOAKED. We walked off that ride the most wet we've ever been. Denim and water don't mix well and we stayed wet long until we got back to the hotel.

All those years of carrying around ponchos on that ride to stay dry and never needing them, and boy I would have paid anything for one last night! Ok, MOM you were right!!!

Back to the hotel and a hot shower and dry clothes was the best final attraction of the day.