JennyMP03
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- Jun 13, 2008
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Sorry to scream my relief and joy into the abyss, but I have been in a horrible situation involving a relative who was killed in December 2012 and the trial for the drunk driver who hit him with her car.
I scheduled and paid for our trip in May, and the trial has been pushed around all summer. It's out of state and would have involved me needing to fly and get a room for several days, and miss work for most of one week. We were scheduled to go to Disney 9/21-9/28, and the trial got moved again-- to 9/30. I would have had to pay a fee, but I was going to move our trip to the end of November so I could attend the trial with my family. I couldn't miss two weeks in a row of work, and besides, it felt disrespectful to my loved one's memory to go directly from a Disney vacation to a murder trial. I didn't want to go with that weighing on my mind.
Unexpectedly, I was called today and told the drunk driver accepted a plea bargain that she'd initially rejected. Our family is so immensely relieved, and we feel the sentence she accepted is a just one. Luckily, my husband told me not to cancel our trip until the last minute in case something like that happened. I thought there was no chance, but I'm so glad I was wrong! All this time I've been thinking we weren't going until November. It's almost like a surprise trip now.
Justice and resolution for my sweet cousin, and we get to keep our original WDW dates. The best Friday the 13th of my life.
I scheduled and paid for our trip in May, and the trial has been pushed around all summer. It's out of state and would have involved me needing to fly and get a room for several days, and miss work for most of one week. We were scheduled to go to Disney 9/21-9/28, and the trial got moved again-- to 9/30. I would have had to pay a fee, but I was going to move our trip to the end of November so I could attend the trial with my family. I couldn't miss two weeks in a row of work, and besides, it felt disrespectful to my loved one's memory to go directly from a Disney vacation to a murder trial. I didn't want to go with that weighing on my mind.
Unexpectedly, I was called today and told the drunk driver accepted a plea bargain that she'd initially rejected. Our family is so immensely relieved, and we feel the sentence she accepted is a just one. Luckily, my husband told me not to cancel our trip until the last minute in case something like that happened. I thought there was no chance, but I'm so glad I was wrong! All this time I've been thinking we weren't going until November. It's almost like a surprise trip now.
Justice and resolution for my sweet cousin, and we get to keep our original WDW dates. The best Friday the 13th of my life.
