Well, not quite, but I was glad I had them. We started out as a short trip to SSR for the Pirate & Princess Party. Kids had a couple of half days of school, so it seemed a good time to escape the winter in Chicago. We were supposed to return Saturday night, but upon arriving at the airport (of course after checking the big board in the terminal and getting through security and to the very last gate) we found all flights to Chicago were cancelled!
We got an odd replacement flight connecting through St. Louis (I'll detail it in my blog later this week), and I got on the phone to MS. They used some of my points left in my account to get me a studio BoardWalk view (4th floor 4007 in the "Crest of the Wave" right next to JellyRolls). Called Southwest that night (it seemed much better dealing with the phone folks than the airport folks - there are apparently 2 different systems, and the phone/online one seems much better). Got a direct flight for Monday afternoon.
MS was of course closed on Sunday, so I called the desk and they got me a room for Sunday night (they said I'd have to move - no biggie).
Sunday morning, went to the desk to check out/in, and the CM there said out room was unbooked until April, so we could stay put!
We did get home on schedule yesterday, so our long weekend which doubled in length was made better by DVC!
I'll blog the whole thing (and the end of our Christmas trip too!)
The weather was great, the pool at SSR was warm, SSR Artists' Point and DTD were packed at night, the buses seemed much better, P&PP was a blast (although PotC stopped when we were in line and out DD 8 tuckered out about then too).
We got an odd replacement flight connecting through St. Louis (I'll detail it in my blog later this week), and I got on the phone to MS. They used some of my points left in my account to get me a studio BoardWalk view (4th floor 4007 in the "Crest of the Wave" right next to JellyRolls). Called Southwest that night (it seemed much better dealing with the phone folks than the airport folks - there are apparently 2 different systems, and the phone/online one seems much better). Got a direct flight for Monday afternoon.
MS was of course closed on Sunday, so I called the desk and they got me a room for Sunday night (they said I'd have to move - no biggie).
Sunday morning, went to the desk to check out/in, and the CM there said out room was unbooked until April, so we could stay put!
We did get home on schedule yesterday, so our long weekend which doubled in length was made better by DVC!
I'll blog the whole thing (and the end of our Christmas trip too!)
The weather was great, the pool at SSR was warm, SSR Artists' Point and DTD were packed at night, the buses seemed much better, P&PP was a blast (although PotC stopped when we were in line and out DD 8 tuckered out about then too).
