VWL Lovers & Groupies thread: It all started with a Moose

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Tomorrow we are out of here and off to Boston for a very long weekend. Fresh seafood, here we come! Thanks to Airtran having a $100 round trip fare sale, we got a great deal on getting there. Thanks to me still being unemployed, we have the time to go. It's not the VWL, but we'll enjoy it anyway.

Have a great trip to my birthplace. I love it there! I wish we had good enough collective health to take "weekend trips"!


Thanks for the great pics Stopher! I'm currently working on a PTR where I hope the lodge will be included, heck maybe I might even be an owner there before the 7 month point. I'm crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath!
 
Great news: I had an interview yesterday! Bad news: I missed said interview due to car trouble - had a flat that needed replacing - $184 later and I'm set to go. Interview has been rescheduled for later this week. Lesson I learned here: never go to the dealer service center for tire help no matter how much you trust them (I honestly thought a tire would cost $80 at the most - their price was double that). I miss having a man around for this stuff. They knew they had me over a barrel and dropped me in.

The irony in all this: I had to call AAA to inflate the tire for me to get down to the service center. Take a random guess at where my interview was supposed to be. :rotfl: Well... at least I have proof in their systems of what happened. In a way, I'm glad as this gives me a little more time to prepare.

So sorry about the car trouble... but I'll join you and say that this morning I woke to a dead battery. Ugh. Minor inconvenience really, but still a pain in the back side. Thankfully DW stays at home, so I took her car to the office and worked for a while, then over to Costco to get a replacement and home again. The stinky part though was that I bought a 100 month one nearly 4 years ago. It should NOT have gone bad already, but at least Costco honors their warranties and I got 50% back to put towards the new one. So that's okay. If it had just been last month it would have been 60%, or if I'd been at 36 months instead of 46 months, it would have been free. But no matter, all is well once again with my Jeep and I'm once again a happy camper. Especially considering I'll be in our sister lodge out west in just a little over 3 weeks :cool1: ... and at the World a few days after that. :woohoo:
 
Thanks for the great pics Stopher! I'm currently working on a PTR where I hope the lodge will be included, heck maybe I might even be an owner there before the 7 month point. I'm crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath!

Can't wait to see/read it. Oh Alison, I so wish we could join you too and get some WL points... but with the newest purchase last week, that dream just has to be put off a while longer. Perhaps next year...
 
Great news: I had an interview yesterday! Bad news: I missed said interview due to car trouble - had a flat that needed replacing - $184 later and I'm set to go.

Glad you were able to reschedule the interview! Good luck!! pixiedust:

We just got new tires on two vehicles. Eight tires! :scared1: :scared1: :scared1:

Can't wait to see/read it. Oh Alison, I so wish we could join you too and get some WL points... but with the newest purchase last week, that dream just has to be put off a while longer. Perhaps next year...

I missed the purchase Stopher but am guessing by your signature you now own a real estate interest in Hawaii. Congrats!!! :yay:
 

Can't wait to see/read it. Oh Alison, I so wish we could join you too and get some WL points... but with the newest purchase last week, that dream just has to be put off a while longer. Perhaps next year...

The PTR (linked in my sig) is not so exciting as it's all speculation (not even to 11 months yet), but hopefully the TR will be very exciting! I'll be working on it a year from now!

I noticed Aulani in your sig! :thumbsup2

We're so hoping for a loan to come through for us. When my FIL passed he left us quite a bit of paid for "free and clear" old rental property that needs serious updgrading, but all the cash was depleted with the 24-7 caregivers. For six months we've been trying to get financing so we can fix up our vacant apartments and get them rented. We turned in our loan docs yesterday with a guy we've been working with since August and crossing our fingers that we can get some money out of our equity. So hopefully everyone can send some moose dust our way on the loan. If it comes through that's where we hope to get the extra $$'s for our VWL points. We included a little "extra" on top of necessary loan money to have a little fun with! :rolleyes1
 
I missed the purchase Stopher but am guessing by your signature you now own a real estate interest in Hawaii. Congrats!!! :yay:

The PTR (linked in my sig) is not so exciting as it's all speculation (not even to 11 months yet), but hopefully the TR will be very exciting! I'll be working on it a year from now!

I noticed Aulani in your sig! :thumbsup2

Well I also didn't go announcing it either - except on an Aulani thread! Thanks. We're looking forward to our first stay there in 2012. My brother lives on Oahu, and my folks live on the Oregon coast and go to the islands twice per year (headed there in a couple of weeks actually) - plus we have friends who live on Maui. So we got enough points to b/b & go every 3 years and enjoy Oahu for a while, then we'd either use cash or one of the 2 timeshares that my FIL is in the process of deeding over to us to hop over to Maui for a while. At least that's the concept plan at this time. We'll see how it all plays out in actuality as time progresses. We both went to the islands several times in our youth and really enjoyed it (separately of course). But given the chance for our honeymoon... we said no. we wanted to go east to the World! So just because we're half way across country doesn't mean we can't go to the islands ourselves every few years. ;)

Hoping everything works out for you Alison for your VWL points. The big sticking thing for us is that earlier expiration date. It's hands down our favorite resort at WDW, and as such we could overcome that date, but that's been foremost on my DW's mind... but of course the longer we wait, the shorter that time gets. :rotfl: And of course, our plan above for Hawaii would really only provide about 20 trips (unless we downgrade from a 1BR when the kids aren't around, but golly, going all that way I bet even just the two of us will want the extra space), and 20 trips is less than the number of years left for WVL... but that's what my DW was saying. 2062 beats 2042! OK. So if they would just extend it, I'd bet we'd be all over that. Sigh.
 
Enjoy your trip to my neck of the woods Inkmahm! :thumbsup2

So far, so good! We are staying at a hotel just about on top of the T stop for the aquarium. Spent the afternoon at the aquarium watching the penguins. Very cool! Last time we were here on a Memorial Day weekend and everything was so crowded. I like it in the off season.

I had Lobster Newburg at Durgen Park for lunch and blackened scallops at the Union Oyster House for dinner. DH is the chowda lover in the family. He's had it twice already for lunch and dinner appetizers!

Tomorrow is our Segway tour but it is supposed to be heavy rain. This may end up being miserable, we'll see.
 
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Oh yum, Durgin Park. Love that place. Great food and atmosphere. Have fun!

Good luck franandaj on your VWL purchase.

Congrats Stopher on the Hawaii DVC!!!
 
The big sticking thing for us is that earlier expiration date. It's hands down our favorite resort at WDW, and as such we could overcome that date, but that's been foremost on my DW's mind... but of course the longer we wait, the shorter that time gets. :rotfl: And of course, our plan above for Hawaii would really only provide about 20 trips (unless we downgrade from a 1BR when the kids aren't around, but golly, going all that way I bet even just the two of us will want the extra space), and 20 trips is less than the number of years left for WVL... but that's what my DW was saying. 2062 beats 2042! OK. So if they would just extend it, I'd bet we'd be all over that. Sigh.

Either you're ALOT younger than me than I thought or you're thinking of your kids and inheritance....we have no kids and would either sell our points or my sibling and her family would sell them, I'm sure they have no desire to go to do Dinsey! The expiration date means nothing to me as I may be dead by that time or at least incapacitated. If I am able to go to Disney I will be amazed as I did not treat myself all that well in my youth. :lmao:

Oh yum, Durgin Park. Love that place. Great food and atmosphere. Have fun!

Good luck franandaj on your VWL purchase.

Congrats Stopher on the Hawaii DVC!!!

Love Dugin Park! Best Scrod ever! and let's keep our fingers crossed...while the BCV contracts have all slipped out from under my fingers the perfect VWL is still sitting there waiting for me....all I need is the cash! :thumbsup2
 
Thanks, Stopher, for the great pics yesterday! Congrats on your Aulani purchase.:cool1:

Sending Pixie Dust to franandaj that your loan is approved and VWL points will be in your future. :wizard:
 
I've heard that the 2011 and 2012 DCA food and wine festival was canceled due to DCA construction. Anybody else hear this?
 
I've heard that the 2011 and 2012 DCA food and wine festival was canceled due to DCA construction. Anybody else hear this?

I haven't read that anywhere myself, but that doesn't reallyl mean anything either. Have you checked out the Disneyland forum for any news like that there?
 
Either you're ALOT younger than me than I thought or you're thinking of your kids and inheritance....we have no kids and would either sell our points or my sibling and her family would sell them, I'm sure they have no desire to go to do Dinsey! The expiration date means nothing to me as I may be dead by that time or at least incapacitated. If I am able to go to Disney I will be amazed as I did not treat myself all that well in my youth. :lmao:

I'm not going to say that I'm alot younger than you or not - won't go there.:rotfl:That's for you to decide. ;) I will say I am thinking inheritance, but not in a major way. Except for the initial purchase to join, we have kind of structured all of our add-ons so that they will be "easily" dividable by the kids. Whether they want to deal with them or not won't be any of my concern since I'll be dead - but they'll "get to" deal with them. :rotfl2: Aren't I so nice? Just as we are now "getting to" deal with a pair of basically worthless timeshares from my FIL. He has 8 - 2 going to each of his kids. I'm not even sure of the details of them yet, or who they're with. I know he reserves through the RCI network, but not sure who the company actually is, or which is his "home" resort. Most were purchased at resorts in Vegas or Laughlin, NV. He tried to sell a few last year, but nobody would give him more than $50 which he turned up his nose at. I wish he would have taken the $50! :lmao:

Thanks all for the congrats on Aulani. We're excited about it.

Oh and speaking of my FIL - just a quick update. Things continue along the same path they have been - except - he has mastered his walker so well, he's advance to just using a cane. AND even BIGGER news - he drove yesterday for the first time in 4 months. My BIL said he was giddy as a school boy. Went to McDonald's to get himself a McRib. And then to the bank. After they got home he was exhausted. But felt free. He also has the crazy notion still of going on a trip. He's never yet cancelled his December trip to Hawaii... my DW and her siblings are discouraging it, but he is seeming adament. His best friend (was his college roommate) and wife would go to, so the med situation would be covered... but my BIL is very leery of the "what ifs". So we'll see.
 
Oh Stopher. I hope your FIL can go to Hawaii. I'll bet the thought of that trip is the motivation he has to be mobile.
Hawaii for your FIL is my prayer.:hug:

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Love Dugin Park! Best Scrod ever! and let's keep our fingers crossed...while the BCV contracts have all slipped out from under my fingers the perfect VWL is still sitting there waiting for me....all I need is the cash! :thumbsup2

Oh my gosh. Another Scrod lover!! And they do have the best Scrod.

May the perfect VWL contract fall gently in your life.:cloud9:

I remember once I had to go to Boston (lived in FL at the time, land of lousy fish) for a work related event. The company took us out for a nice dinner at a very upscale Boston restaurant (don't remember the name). The hosts encouraged everyone to order lobster, filet mignon, what ever, price is no object. I ordered Scrod. You should have seen the faces. They looked like I had ordered baby seal parmigiana. :lmao:
 
How about a Snow Moose for Christmas?

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Just 17 days 'til VWL! :banana::banana::banana: And that's after our first ever cruise! :banana::banana::banana: :santa:
You just had to show me and DiznyDad up, didn't you! ;) Enjoy the cruise, too, as I've done those, too. Tons of fun, and if it's not on your list, make sure you get ressies at Palo for dinner at least one night.

And while I'm at it. . .30 days. . .:thumbsup2
 
Hi Groupies :wave:

Been crazy busy.... but all good

:woohoo::woohoo: 30 days:woohoo::woohoo: till the Holiday Magic Begins. :santa:
For so long this trip seemed so far away and now It's so close I can't wait

:santa: I'm so looking forward to our Groupie meet :grouphug:

Off to catch up :surfweb:

take care and keep your family close :flower3:
 
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