What to do arrival day?

One of our first night activities is something that I rarely see mentioned on the boards. This might not help OP much with a 2.5 year old (although we did exactly this with our four year old DD a week ago!) but it's another option for some people. Also, this works best for people who have a car.

We have about a 13-14 hour drive so we usually try to get to Lake City late on Friday (that way DD can sleep for the last few hours), stay overnight, and drive those last couple of hours, hopefully getting on property by lunchtime. Many times our room has been ready so we can do the grocery run and get unpacked. We usually share a two bedroom villa at OKW with my parents so we get some pretty significant groceries and really like to unpack and settle in.

Anyway, after all that, because it's Saturday night, we go to mass at the beautiful church in Celebration and then stroll around the little town and have dinner somewhere there. I get that mass is not for everybody BUT even leaving that piece out, Celebration is such a cool little township to visit and see. It's like a different world. There are lots of restaurants within walking distance of each other and they are good, and yummy and somewhat more reasonably priced. It kind of helps us to ease into getting used the the insane prices on everything on property. One more good meal at real world prices! Many of the restaurants are around a big lake so we can stroll around there. We love it. I know it's hard to leave the Disney bubble but because this was designed by imagineers it's kind of a bridge between real world and the magic. And if you're trying to get a mass in before starting your long days at the parks the Catholic church there really is beautiful and very friendly and welcoming. Of course this year my DD was old enough to be like, you've been promising disney for months and we're finally here and we're going to church!?! But she survived.

Long story short, I'm surprised that I don't see more people mention a visit to Celebration on the boards. It's a nice stop.
 


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