Looking for some thoughts about the race weekend and balancing races/parks, and also a question for the more-experienced DVC'ers.
I thought I had a good sense of what DH would want to sign up for. I also had pretty much written off BIL/SIL coming down to join us for the weekend. And then yesterday they came over to hang out with us for the afternoon and somehow DH convinced BIL that they should come down. (I think the main point was "You don't have to run any of the races dude.") I'm waiting for them to walk that back this evening since SIL is a teacher and taking days off the week after break can be difficult, and DH originally told BIL it was during the end of Christmas/NY break. So if they don't back out, I'm working under the assumption that they'll be there Thursday or Friday through Sunday. This is the DVC part of the question. The 7mo mark is going to be in June. Anyway, how long do you think is safe to wait for booking a 2br for the weekend days? I have a week booked for us already in a studio, but I don't want to force everyone to wake up on Saturday/Sunday, and extra bathrooms are really nice to have. We "own" as SSR and I'm also fine with staying at OKW. And then AKV would be the 3rd choice (just based on how many points I have to work with here.) I'm going to have to borrow, and what I do NOT want to happen is to borrow a year's worth of points and then have them back out and be "stuck" with a 2BR for 2 people.
And now for the race/vacation part of the question, that's not really a question, but more 'am I enormously over-thinking this? Because I'm a mega-planner for this stuff.' I will preface this with, BIL/SIL are really hard to get to commit to stuff early. SIL, as of yesterday, was on the fence about registering for anything, but I think if she DOES sign up, it'll be for the half. However, this morning DH texts me that if BIL/SIL come down, he'll probably just do the 5k and 10k. Did you hear that? That's the sound of my plan flying out the window. See, I figured if he was going to cut back, it would be to only register for the half and nothing else. And I would do Goofy, and that makes for a shorter trip (which HE wanted) and less wakeups for everyone. But if DH is going to do the 5 and 10, I may as well sign up for Dopey (because he said 3 years ago that running those by himself was kind of boring.) But doing Dopey means that *I* will be the downer for the weekend wanting to go to bed early, needing a nap, and I have absolutely no idea if anyone wants to do park days. (DH and I had kind of agreed to not do much for parks for this trip when we talked about it in February.) Help?