Change in Our DisneyMoon Plans

As DVC members, we have enough points to visit WDW twice a year. Of course I already had our 2012 trips planned and one booked; June 17-22 at Bay Lake Tower, just CJ, me, and the kids. We knew we were absolutely going back in October, just had to wait for the 11 month-out window to book. That meant when we decided to take an adults only trip in March, we couldn't use DVC points, so I booked the trip with Kelly from Travel With The Magic - who, by the way, is an EXCELLENT Disney travel agent! I highly recommend her!

Well, things got rocky, job-wise, and CJ made the decision to quit his full time freelance writing gig and head back into the workforce. He landed at job at Martin Guitars but through a temp. agency, so there is no guarantee of  a permanent position. We knew we would have to make some changes. We still wanted our adults only 'DisneyMoon' - but would it be easier to tell a job place that wants to hire you that you have a trip in 3 months, that was planned and paid for before the job offer; or saying the trip is in 7 months?  From past experience, the vacation that is sooner is more acceptable than saying, "hey, I need off 7 months from now" so we decided to ditch the June trip altogether. We know there is probably no way he'd get time off for 3 WDW vacations next year!

I suppose we could just cancel ALL our trips but then we are out money because the points we are using for 2012 are borrowed from 2013 (don't ask, I know, I need more points! LOL) Canceling our June trip meant freeing up DVC points, so we made the decision to cancel our stay at the Polynesian and use points for our March stay. This breaks my heart cause I LOVE the Polynesian but financially, it just made sense.

We are going to stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge - Jambo House. We stayed there in June and liked it a lot. We had a pool view:

In March we got a Savanna view. This should be interesting. So many people rave about the view and being able to wake up in the morning seeing animals roaming around.