Yes! The 17th! I hadn't thought about the Thursday vs Friday thing, I was just thinking holiday weekend, but that's true it could definitely make a difference. Maybe I can extend my indecisiveness a few more days! Last year I went the following weekend, the last weekend in January - it was also a Friday and I think it sold out.
Right now our flight gets in at 9pm, which we've never done before with the kids, but we can just pick them up from school and head to the airport and they'd only miss one day. The only other direct flight gets in at 11 am - departs around 8am. That's more our "usual" flight time, and then we'd generally go into a park, but not plan a late night. If we did this earlier departure, we'd probably do lunch at the resort and just do low-key resort stuff until our room was ready and save energy for the evening. We're already doing DAH at HS on Saturday night, but it's a birthday splurge and I think this would be fun! But I can definitely see where it could be tiring after a long flight - I remember my daughter was dragging last year at DAH just from a full day of fun...(Plus I could be rolling the dice with bad weather given it's January, but I'm trying not to thing about that!)
