Well, I received some interesting information today
.
On Friday afternoon, I received confirmation that our purchase of the two Vistana units had settled on the resort level, and we were "official" owners
. We had registered deeds in hand and were ready to go ahead and book for 2014.
Today on my lunch hour, I called Owner Services and chatted with a lovely young lady who went ahead and booked us (tentatively, of course) for the last two weeks of August. She was super helpful and made an awesome impression, I must say
. At the end of the call, she grew kind of serious and said "before I let you go, there's something else important that i need to talk to you about".
Oh oh.
When I said to her..."this sounds serious!
", she laughed and said "well it is, but in a good way". Then she proceeded to tell me that we still had both 2013 weeks that were not used by the previous owners, and that were ours to use (or bank with an exchange company). She wanted to know if she could book me in for another two weeks before the end of this year.
Um, hello, let me pick myself up off the floor.
So I texted Steve at work with the update, and (jokingly) said "hey, you want to spend Christmas in Orlando?".
I got one word back...."YES".
I said...."um, I was kidding".
And I got back "I'm not".
Lord almighty.
I know it will never come together (I am sure we'll never be able to co-ordinate vacation time, availability at the Vistana during the two busiest weeks of the year, reasonably priced flights, etc. at this late date) but OMG...isn't it fun to think about?
And either way, we'll have a couple of extra weeks to use between now and June 2015 (assuming we deposit them with an exchange co.). Or maybe we will rent one and make a little money along the way.
I will keep ya'll posted
.