My sister, my mother and myself just got back from the world on Sunday. Mom owns a timeshare close to property and she has it every other year.. YEs, sadly only every other year
BUT - My grandmother has a unit at the same resort every year so sometimes we can use her unit on the off years we don't have ours.
Since we don't have the unit next year in 2012, we were going to save up and plan to stay on property for a week, in November so my sister can go during the Christmas season (I've been twice during Thanksgiving, 2001 and last year 2010) We havent stayed on property since 2006 so we were pretty excited. Well, plans have changed a little... when we went this past week, a unit wasnt available at our home resort so we had to exchange it. With RCI its based on trading power and ours had a trading power of 20 .. The resort we ended up trading to was a 10 (still such a wonderful resort, not sure why only 10) so she ended up getting to keep 10 of her trading points. So this means that rather than having to save up to stay on property next year, we will have the timeshare again to stay in in November.... only we decided we can't wait a year and a half for the trip so we're bumping it to May, the same time we went this year. We had beautiful weather and the crowds were low. Well, now we're a little bummed about not being able to stay on property. So in talking with my sister Monday night (yes, the night after we got back from the World) we decided we can't wait a whole year to go again. Her and I always take one long weekend away together, usually in Sept or October. Last year we went to Tampa because it was cheaper than Disney. Left Friday morning and came back Monday night. So, after some discussion we decided this fall will be Disney. We're going to get AP's since we're going again in the spring (wish we had known we would want to go back so soon before we just went cause we would have gotten AP's then... Hindsight sometimes, I tell ya!) Well, my sister is VERY limited to the vacation time she gets (2 weeks and that includes sick time too plus she gets a week of "appointment time" that has to be used for appointments ONLY. Her works is comparable to jail sometimes, seriously and if she didnt make great money there, she would leave lol) so we decided to look into holiday weekends (Labor Day or Veterans Day) so we have an extra day. After some research, I came across the free dining promo for August and Sept and airfare for $255 from our home airport (Portland, ME.. and Portland is usually pretty expensive.). So now, sister has put in for the Tuesday and Weds of Labor Day week off and we're just waiting to see if she gets it off. I don't like the waiting part........ :lookaroun
If she can't get those days, we're going to try Veterans Day. MVMCP will be happening then and she really wants to go during Christmas.
Soooooo, this fall will be my 3rd trip in a year.. Does this qualify me as Disney obsessed yet? I love making our ADR's and looking at the different touring plans, though we never follow a touring plan, we just kind of go with the flow. I've looked at our photopass pictures 4 times since Sunday night and check Lines daily just to see how long the line would be for Space Mountain if we were there right now :lol: I even went to an audition when I was there last week for the entertainment department. I made it to the final round and I will get a call within 6 months if they have an opening that fits my height. t's always been my dream to be in SpectroMagic or the BaTB show so my fingers are crossed!!! Ahhh, thank goodness I'm not the only Disney lover that feels down after they come home from their trips!!
