Remember in my earlier posts when I said we were ready to take naps?
Well by this point I was ready to go to sleep on the lounge chairs outside of O'hana. We checked in for our 8:35pm reservation at about 8:20ish. I requested a table by the window (just like we did our last trip) and then we proceeded to wait. And wait. Mom was falling asleep on the chair so I decided to wake her up and take selfies with her
She loves to do this face when we do selfies....oh Mom.....
FINALLY! Our buzzer went off at about 8:50ish and we headed to our table.
We headed back to our table - I would say our table was "window view" in that you could see a window from the table....but definitely not as close as I had hoped. We were seated by the center section though which looks very nice....
As we were seated we were immediately given the tasty coconut bread - I was determined not to fill up on bread...but hubby had already grabbed a chunk off the bread by the time I was able to take a picture. It cracks me up because this very same thing happened the last time we were at O'hana (see my previous trip report)! Shortly after sitting down we realized that the electrical water parade started. It was pretty cool to see the whole parade as I remember only seeing bits and pieces before.
The salad was delivered (forgot to snap a pic) and we all inhaled it. It was muchhhhh more tasty this time than I remember it being two years ago. Our waitress was very efficient throughout our meal and would swing by quickly asking what we wanted more of and filled our drinks throughout dinner. She seemed to be covering many large tables so there was some periods of waiting for the next protein to be brought out to our table - but we could see that she was working as quickly as she could! I was happy to have such great service because the service during our last visit was pretty horrible.
Here is the main dish of goodies (again, we were starving so we started eating before I could snap a pic)
I absolutely love their dumplings, sauteed veggies and chicken wings. We were served shrimp (shell on), chicken and steak whenever they had fresh skewers cooked. The only one that was sub-par was the steak. Our first portion of it was kinda cold - Mom asked for some warmer steak and our waitress apologized and waited for some fresh steak to be cooked. It was all delicious! I fill up on sooo many of the side items that I honestly don't even care that much about the skewers when they come by! I don't remember the shrimp still having their shell on them last time so I was surprised when they were served this way this time - but still very tasty
Wishes started at 10pm - they didn't dim the lights until halfway through the fireworks. I just love Wishes <3
Then my favorite part of the whole meal was delivered....
O'hana bread pudding. Soooooooooo delicious!!!! Levi doesn't care for bananas and forgot that the caramel sauce had bananas in it before he dumped it all over the bread pudding! LOL. More for Mom and I - we inhaled as much as our stomachs would let us and then paid our check.
By this time it was around 10:40pm. We were dead tired. I wasn't dead tired enough though to stop us from taking more pics....
We then headed to the front of the Poly to wait for a taxi. There was one family in front of us and they had already been waiting for about 5 minutes. We check Uber and the cost for a taxi to our resort was about $26 (high demand time) so we eventually opted to take the monorail to Magic Kingdom and walked over to the bus stop. We waited a while for a bus and headed back to the resort (now 11pm something). I snapped this shot before heading to the room...
I took a shower before crashing for the night.
Total step count for the day: 15,007
Lesson learned take two (or three?! for the day losing count...): Don't schedule O'hana for dinner on arrival night after flying during the day and waking up freakishly early AND don't schedule O'hana dinner for the last night of our trip (mistake made last time) - both of these days tend to be overwhelmingly tiring days and we don't enjoy dinner as much as we probably could.
END OF DAY 1!