lisaviolet
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2002
Made me smile on a night I really needed it! Thanks Kathy.
Although I did think drat Kathy took the pictures and she's so talented that her pictures probably will beat the real deal! Laughing.
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Back story to my Christmas/NYs trip.
In 1974 my parents, and Lord knows how they did it - Dad was a firefighter and Mom stayed at home then, took us all- four kids two rooms - to WDW. And times when you spent what you had in your pocket and not a penny more. So man they must have saved and saved.
It was when there were three choices of course - Fort Wilderness, The Contemporary and The Polynesian.
We stayed in the brand new, futuristic hotel where that magic monorail shot on through. So lovely. I still think of that little tiny movie theatre in the basement. Magical.
But I learned on that trip, before - during - after , that my Mom's wish was to book The Polynesian but she was vetoed by my father.
And being the good woman that she was/is she never ever let him forget it. As only a woman can do!
Good work Mom! Poor Dad.
On that trip so long ago she would talk about how beautiful it was and how the rooms were so spacious. You know that passive aggressive skill of YOU WILL NOT FORGET WHAT I DID NOT GET. Laughing.
We went to the luau. Spent a lot of time at the resort.
And on every return trip, and with me on bring the parents DVC trips she would talk about the Polynesian and how she had wanted to stay there. Every trip. For years on end. A la "oh there's The Polynesian - that is where I always have wanted to stay." Once again, poor Dad! I'm sure he was/they were priced out of The Polynesian in the late seventies!
So almost 43 years later, here we are ----
My mother is in poor health and my father has recently passed away. Her health is so tentative that even getting health insurance is near impossible for her to cross the border
Well I've done it! I've found the insurance. DVC Polynesian has come to fruition. I've booked pretty well two weeks of prime time room bookings without being an owner at the resort. I'm a great DVC stalker. And I've told her she is finally going back *down south* like she's asked to do.
She's non-communicative and is now in a wheelchair but she's a goin'! And she's on a first class plane ticket at that. Well Southwest $99 on the way back - thank you Southwest!
Every day that is difficult I'm like oh no you push through right now, you have a plane seat waiting for you!
She knows she is going to WDW. But has no clue she's staying at The Polynesian.
So if you're down there and you see some strange woman bawling on the floor in The Polynesian lobby when her Mom is getting her lei placed over her, it's me! Say hi!
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