January Trip Report: An Evening at the Poly

After a devastating football game, DRF and I picked up our friend Lisa and headed to my happy place! We had an ADR at Kona and I was kind of worried we might be late, but we ended up getting there early. We got our pager and waited for a bit for it to go off. We were thinking about browsing the gift shop, so I went up to the podium to ask how long they thought it would be and at that moment it started buzzing! So, they took us to our table. I will post a full review of our dinner at Kona later,

I hadn't been to the Poly since the late 90's so it was good to be back and take the atmosphere and that smell everyone always talks about. I was kind of surprised at how small Kona was, but the atmosphere was exactly what I had imagined!

After dinner we had about an hour until Wishes so we took a round trip ride on the Monorail. Lisa said it made her want to go back to Disney World so I think I did my job!

After our trip we made our way to the beach to get seats for the fireworks. It was New Years Day so it was Holiday Wishes, which I had never seen before. Watching the fireworks for the Poly was interesting. It was very relaxing and not as crowded as on Main Street. My biggest complaint was that when sitting on the beach, the nearest speakers are on the buildings so the music is pretty quiet and if the people around you are talking you would have a hard time hearing it.

After Wishes we headed over to Downtown Disney so Lisa could pick up a souvenir...that was a BAD idea! We drove around for 20 minutes looking for a parking space and by the time we finally got one, there were SO many people in there! I almost started to hyperventilate in World of Disney it was so packed! But, Lisa found something and we had a nice chat with the cashier who goes to Central Michigan.

Then, we ran back to the car, dropped Lisa off at the Peabody and headed back to the beach. We got back around midnight and we could barely keep our eyes open! But, we had to get to bed, we were headed to the parks nice and early!