Have a blast, you sound like you’ve earned it!

We visit every 2 years from the UK and looked into
DVC back in 2013, before we were aware of the resale market. We chose against it at that time due to Disney’s prices. Wish I’d looked deeper into it at that point, still, we’ve got our contract too now, happy days!
We were just in the UK for 10 days. Got back last week.
We went to WDW ahead of a tour with Marriott 20 or so years ago and stayed at VWL. Loved it there!! While at WDW, we toured DVC and they were selling HHI. We were tempted but bought Marriott. The expiration seemed like a big deal at the time and I agree with you; wish we'd looked into it more at the time. 12 years ago, we purchased our first HHI contract resale but with the cost of attorneys fees in SC, we opted to go direct next as the price difference wasn't worth it at the time. This time with VBR, the price difference was significant between direct and resale. So excited to book that first trip at our new 'home'.