UPDATE - As of 8/3, it does not look as though we will stay at a hotel the night of the 24th. Just to gain an hour (at best) of sleep just doesn't seem worth it.
I just realized I haven't been doing much in the way of planning for this trip. I think a lot of it has to do with planning the other trip... but also I was watching airfare and waiting to post anything until I decided on a couple things. Why? I could just tell share that I changed my mind. It isn't like that never happens
In any case, I was waiting to see if airfare would go down on 10/5 so I could push out trip out one day. I saw it go down several times, but I always noticed when it was late at night and I couldn't really call to do anything about it. See, if it went down I was going to call and book a night on the front end at AoA. DV had a discount (that expired yesterday
) That would have made it affordable to just do a room only that first night. In fact, I do like this plan since we won't need the dp or tickets anyway that first night. (assuming that Kira and Amanda do not fly a red eye on 9/24 - and yes, we are reevaluating that
) So I might find a way to do that still.. for now though....
Day 1 - 9/24
I know, 9/24? Well, since we are flying so early it kinda makes sense to stay at a hotel that is near the airport with a shuttle. Otherwise, we would have to leave the house at 3:15am. Getting a ride at that time is more the issue that us getting up. We will still have to get up early but not needing to have everyone loaded up at 3:00 am is a plus. More importantly not making grumpy men get up to drive us to the air port will be PRICELESS.
Since this is a tuesday during a week that I always work and since I get 0 vacation time, I will have to spend the day scrambling to get my work done. It will be a crazy couple days with work since I will have to get most everything needed to be done for the week done by tuesday night.
Once I am home, we will load up the SUV and hopefully both Steve and Josh will drive us to our hotel for the night.
or maybe here
The first one, we have used before for a shuttle and will be using it in a few weeks. It is a nice enough hotel and I was impressed by the shuttle last time. If the price is right and the shuttle works out well in July, this will be my first choice.
The second one, we also have stayed before. The room is bigger and it has a nice evening reception as well as a cook to order breakfast in the morning (that of course we would not be using due to the early flight) However, if the price is right the evening reception may be worth staying here.
Obviously I still need to book a room for the night.
Maybe we will all go to dinner together before the guys head back home. If Amanda and Kira are with Zoe and I, I think this is more likely. Josh and Kira are still pretty glued to the hip... and I am sure they will want to spend the last moments they can together.
If it is Steve dropping Zoe and I off, I am not sure he will stick around. It might be a "see ya"
It will all depend on how he is feeling.
Regardless of who sticks around, I will have to eat dinner. Since we will be eating so much good food at WDW though, I don't think I will feel the need to make too serious of plans. Maybe something light, in the room.
After a few hectic days with work, I will be pretty tired and we will still have to be out the door to the shuttle by about 4:15am, so I doubt we will stay up late. It will be an early bed time and hopefully we won't be too excited and will be able to soon fall asleep.
Not only did I do it, but I made it to the end of my run segment and didn't feel like I was going to die. 
I'm sure you'll do great with it! 
I knew that could not be right so I slowed and saw that it was set at week 5 day 1. On the fly...while running I had to switch it to the week 7 day 1 (remember I did day 2 on tuesday) Then I had to calculate. Hmmm.. so I did the 5 minute walk already and ran 5 already..so if I run through the warm up that takes me to 10 minutes of running. Ok..so when it tells me that I am to "start" running I will be half way and then I can do my cool down when it says I reached have way. It was a bit confusing to me.. but I am pretty sure that I didn't run or add more than a minute or two at most to the "total time" as I slide the slide bar over to the correct day. I also slowed to look to see what was up. Even with all this... I ran farther today than tuesday..so 
