Hi readers! (To those of you that have PTRs, I promise I will catch up this weekend! I've been without the laptop at home this week because DH is taking it to work at one of his tutoring locations at night. I owe lots of comments!)
I had to sneak on at work for a quick update, though.
I have a DIS friend (hi, Staci!) that suggested looking in to renting DVC points from a member. I've been checking in to it for a while, but never got "that" feeling from a member quite yet and I have huge business trust issues after working in the legal industry/preparing for law school. But, I finally found someone that I completely trusted and who was willing to give me the information I requested to check several items (deed/property ownership, home phone/address, work information, etc.)
Well, long story short, he spent a lot of time emailing back and forth with me trying to get a reservation that DH and I wanted. We had requested a standard view, AKV studio. But, after checking for us several times, October 28 was completely booked. I didn't want to be waitlisted and then have to move to another resort for October 28 if nothing opened, and then back to AKV on the 29. So, I momentarily gave up until he explained how a split DVC stay worked.
He said that if we wanted to stay at AKV until the 28, concierge would pick up our bags from our room and move them to our new resort. We wouldn't even have to be there; we'd go to the park from AKV and go to the new resort for that night when we were done at the park.
I talked to DH, and he said let's give it a shot! We sat down and looked at the other DVC resorts and picked our choices. We also decided that if we were going to go for a split stay, we'd want to do 4 nights at AKV and 3 at the other resort (move on the 27) so that we'd have a few days to check out the other property, too.
I told the member let's do it! He emailed me back after checking with member services, and said all but ONE DVC resort was completely booked for October 28 because of
MNSSHP. (I almost picked that party and was still tearing myself to pieces about it because we'd be missing DHS EMH if I didn't buy tickets for the 28, but thankfully, I bought tickets for another night instead even though we won't get DHS EMH. So at least I know now that the 28 is going to be a busy party and I made the right choice there!) The standard view was now gone for AKV and we had no idea if there was any sort of studio open. Things were all kinds of up-in-the-air.
At that point, I said JUST BOOK IT and didn't care what the only other resort open was for the 28. I'd been so looking forward to spending part of our trip at AKV and was going to be so disappointed if it didn't work out.
After the longest hour of my life, I received an email from this awesome member that said "YOU GOT IT!"
So, our resort plans have changed!!!
I am beyond excited to post this:
October 23 (check-in) - October 27 (check-out): AKV, studio, SAVANNAH view!!!
October 27 (check-in) - October 30 (check-out): SSR, studio
I know nothing about SSR, so I've been researching and am debating if I want to put in a room request since they don't have a difference between preferred or standard view. It wasn't our first choice on the list we made either, but from what I've been looking at, it looks beautiful and it'll be nice to be so close to DTD!
This has been me the last few days:
I am really close to my mom, too. She had open heart surgery when she was only 37 and I thank God everyday that she was strong enough to pull through. I fully believe mothers are angels in disguise! 
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