Thanks for posting your photo! One question about your villa. Did Aulani put a fence between your patio and the walkway? There weren't any fences when we were there in September 2012, but I thought Aulani had installed some in the last few months.
Yes, there was a fence with an easy-to-open gate between the patio and that rock pathway you can see in the picture. If you look very closely, you can just barely see part of that fence in the bottom right corner of the photo.