Dh pulled up to Jambo House and the girls and I went in.
Do you need to know that I took that pic a different day? I was way too excited to take pictures. I did online check-in ten days prior, so up to that counter we went. I was so giddy!
The CM was luke warm - I wish he would have acted a bit excited for me, but he wasn't bad. Does that make sense? He gave us our packet with room keys and told me I was in 50--. He said he couldn't give me the room number yet. I opted for the text to alert us.
Meanwhile, DH parked the car and came inside. He was all giddy too. We walked around a bit.
We learned that each savannah takes the animals in for two hours a day. They alternate so that animals are at the other savannahs. The savannah nearest the lobby was without the animals - which is why I only have bird pictures for you.
We decided to go over to Kidani's pool (Samawati Springs) to swim since we knew we had plenty of time. We walked to the car and picked up the pool bag. The restroom and changing facilities at Kidani were LOVELY. (I didn't take pics - sorry).
After swimming a bit, dds and I went to check out the water play area. It was very cute and they enjoyed it. I think that it might be more fun for kids who don't love to swim/ don't want to, etc. I didn't take too many surrounding photos; I focused on my kids, but here are two with a little bit of the playground.
You can see in the background that maintenance was there. If it wasn't in the photo, I wouldn't have remembered!
At 11:15, the text arrived! "Your resort room is ready! Your room number is 5006. Have a magical day!"
We walked back to Jambo's 5006 (with a stop at the car for half of our stuff); it isn't a terrible walk, but not really one worth treking to the pool area everyday.
So what was the room view? Did you think we had one of the two parking lots? Because we booked a DVC Value Studio (rooms that are slightly smaller than others) I knew there was a possibilty of 8 pool, 8 savannah, and 2 parking lot (one can learn so much from disboards!). I knew we didn't have parking lot - 5131 and 5133.
We had a pool view:
haha- maybe it
was a pool view, but I think they should establish a new "garden view" category.
Coming up: which park do we visit first?
I am curious about renting DVC points. Never done it and am hearing alot of good about it. I am not sure how it all works so I am interested in your "take" on it.
They are good about smiling for pictures. (They might have been fighting less than five minutes before the picture, however. 
I used Crayola window markers. Please glean any idea that you can!!! I am a teacher and it is how we survive!
