Welcome home! What a great story; it reminds me a bit of our own.
We were on our first trip to WDW (we were living in Ontario at the time too). On our last day in the parks, my DH and DS went off to buy a sword at POTC while I stood in line to get Stitch's autograph. After I got that, I started talking to the DVC guy at the kiosk who talked me into a tour the next morning before our flight left.
We went to the tour, thought it over, and bought at SSR when we got home. We had looked at other time-shares, and they just didn't make as much sense as DVC did.
We tease my son that it was a very expensive sword that he bought.