Due to Friday's events, I am taking tomorrow off. LAPD is coming over to fingerprint the affected areas of the house.
I am going to provide a more thorough update tomorrow. For now, I will give a brief synopsis of our check in process yesterday.
As stated before, I slept late Friday night and couldn't sleep. I was awake yesterday morning by 4:45. I love my DISboards. It makes me happy so I had done some updates. It's like my mental escape. Then it was time to get the family ready.
I was soooooo sad at this point, having cried more times than I'd like to remember. What saddened me more was when DD was getting ready and one of the 1st things she asked was whether or not the robber stole her jewelry we had bought her in July for our staycation when we are VGH. I had spent quite a bit of money for her jewelry and mine. I knew they were gone and didn't have the heart to tell her so I had DH tell her. She was so sad.
We had a 9:30 1/2 day cabana rental at DLH. We finally pulled into the Valet parking lane around 9:05 and I lined up at the lobby's registration a few minutes later. DH kept the kids occupied by allowing them to look at the large retro
Disneyland map in the lobby then the TV viewing area at the lobby. I explained what happened the night before. I couldn't help it...I kept crying and uncontrollably so. I would cry, turn away so they couldn't see me, then I'd see my family behind me. My heart is soooo broken and my view of the world is honestly shaken. I don't know how else to explain it. I kept thinking of the things that were taken, how long we had owned them, the unique places we got them from, and I honestly felt I would NEVER see them again. I kept thinking of how much I loved it when my husband gave me my engagement ring, how we had the wedding band custom-made, the items acquired during vacations, how I got my dream Tiffany Return to Tiffany necklace that I saved up for, etc. I cannot fathom how a person could think it's okay to purposely rent a car, forcibly enter a stranger's home and take their possessions as if he has a right to do this. I follow the rules and life and he obviously doesn't.
We are supposed to have a party at our house on Saturday with3 other families. I've just decided to cancel it. I don't think my heart can take seeing anyone I know. In fact, the family that watched our kids for last week's baseball game is coming over this early evening to watch the DLP fireworks. She wants to meet us for dinner before we head home. She's one of my best friends and my heart can't take seeing her today. In a few minutes I will text her to cancel (I can't talk to her cuz I know I'll just bawl my eyes out.).
So anyway, the 3 CM's at registration were very sympathetic and kind. They were typing away, saying they wanted to give us some "Disney Magic.". A few minutes later, a manager came out from the back room. They said they were comp'ing our Valet parking for the weekend.
They also asked if I had any dining reservations. They looked up and comp'd our Goofy's Kitchen dinner reservations for that night (it included tax & gratuities).
Then she said that she was going to escort us to our room. "Our room is already?" "Yes, it is.". Wow! A few more minutes later the 2 CM's walked us over the other side of the resort. We walked past the Adventure Tower and walked into the Frontier Tower. Wow! Where are we going? The CM pushed level 14, the top floor. We made a left at the hallway and the room was on the right. The CM put the key card and opened the door.
OMG!!!!!!!! It was a suite!!!! OMG!!!! I kept saying, "OMG, OMG, OMG!". My hands were covering my mouth in amazement! We walked into a HUGE living room with a full bar equipped with a sink, refrigerator, 2 bar stools and a large counter. A full closet behind it, a large sofa bed, a large fluffy side chair, a cocktail table, a round side table with 2 chairs, and a balcony!
The bedroom next door had the two queen beds, the amazing castle headboard I had been hearing about, another balcony, two large closets, a sink area, the bathroom with another sink area with toilet with a bathtub/shower combination! Everyone was sooooo amazed! We profusely thanked them for their kindness and gave them HUGE hugs (all 4 of us) and noted their names!
I later told DH, "This is why I love Disney so much.". I knew we had to escape our home for some happiness.
I'll update tomorrow. It's now 10:25 and we have to check out by 11:00. We are staying in this awesome room until the last minute. I kept telling the kids that we will never be able to be in a room like this EVER again!
Posting this has been emotional. I woke up this morning so incredibly sad because I realized we are going back home today. The reality had hit me again. I also made the appointment with LAPD to come tomorrow to fingerprint the house.
Thank you to everyone for their kind words. I'm sure only time will heal our emotional wounds.
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