What is your "Day before Disney ritual"? We all have one! I thought it would be fun to share what you do on the day before, a day filled with excitement and anticipation!
Well...There's the obvious:
*Put the finishing touches on the suitcases and line them all up in the hallway. Also check all luggage tags to make sure each bag has one.
*Take the dog to the sitter's house.
*Make sure all laundry is caught up.
*Check in for flight online and print boarding passes.
*Double check all itinerary and reservations.
*Set out everyone's travel outfits down to the socks, shoes, and undies.
*Get out everyone's ears or Goofy hat (as is the case with my son) because it is required that everyone wear them for the flight.
*Make everyone shower so we don't have to rush in the morning.
*Double check lists for items we need to pack last minute, and make a new list of things we need to use till the last second and need to be packed in the morning.
*Check and check again that all gift cards, ID's, money, boarding passes, etc...are all with the luggage. Then check again.
*Shave legs.
*Check with the girls and make sure they have shaved their legs too, so they don't try and do it in the morning.
I guess we don't have any fun rituals for the night before. We just have to make sure everything is ready for the next day. It's tricky with 7 in my immediate family and 12 total with my extended family. I am always in charge of planning and packing and such, so I have to be really organized to get us through security with lots of kids and not enough adult hands to get us through quickly. This year we will have 14 to get through, and next year probably 16! Pretty soon we will take up the whole plane! One year the hubby shoved a bunch of bottled water into the bags last minute without me knowing, and of course security stopped us. What was he thinking? Between the 5 adults that usually go with us, we have 2 c-paps and one auto-pap machine, plus my daughter has a nebulizer, so we have to pack up a lot in the morning since we sleep with the c and auto-pap machines, and then we have to unpack them for security, and repack them while other people are trying to squeeze through security! Anyway, I sort of went off subject there. My point is that usually my night before is a bit stressed as I am trying to make sure nothing is forgotten. We don't do anything magical but get ready I guess.