carry a change of clothes in your carry on - another reminder

[disneyholic family]

DS and DDIL have arrived in Chile!!! - minus their luggage
yet another reminder to take a change of clothes in your carry on bag.......it means not travelling as light on the plane, but you'll be assured at least something to wear at your destination...

actually, one of their three bags did arrive - the duffel that had only gifts in it...
but their 2 suitcases with all their clothes didn't arrive...
all the clothes for winter in chile (which it is right now) and all their clothes for the 2nd half of their trip in orlando....
ya think the mouse will mind if they walk around the parks nekkid?..

anyway, hopefully their bags will catch up with them...

by the way, this happens to me almost every trip - in one direction or the other....the great black hole that is kennedy airport....where luggage goes to die....not really....it eventually is resurrected - a day or two later....but in the meantime you have no clothes.......which is why it really makes sense to carry a change of clothes in your carry-on bag....and if you're headed to florida, throw in your bathing suit too!!

 

[loobzuk]

knickers and a toothbrush in my handbag - never fails!

Hope their luggage turns up quickly, we need to spare the mouse his blushes

 

[Alex's Mummy]

Totally agree with this- especially if you have children who might throw up on you. Nothing worse than 9 hours of smelling bad for you or whoever sits beside you.

Rachel

 

[2Tiggies]

ya think the mouse will mind if they walk around the parks nekkid?..

Erm, I don't know - but they can report back to us and let us know what kind of reception they got ...

I know there is so much logic in packing extra clothes just in case, but I can never bring myself to carrying extra things with me on board.

....and if you're headed to florida, throw in your bathing suit too!!

Well at least then you won't be totally naked

knickers and a toothbrush in my handbag - never fails!

Yes, that will at least give you a dazzling smile as you strut through the parks ....

Totally agree with this- especially if you have children who might throw up on you. Nothing worse than 9 hours of smelling bad for you or whoever sits beside you.

Rachel

I have never had my DD be sick on herself, however as a baby, she did manage to throw up onto another passenger I couldn't possibly have been prepared for that one!!

 

[disneyholic family]

Totally agree with this- especially if you have children who might throw up on you. Nothing worse than 9 hours of smelling bad for you or whoever sits beside you.

Rachel

24 years ago - DD was 2 years old...we had to take a taxi from la guardia airport to kenndy to get to our next flight.....at the end of the taxi ride DD threw up all over herself and DH....

of course since she was still a baby, i had a bag full of clothes for her....
but poor DH....nothing...of course, you'd think we could find some clothes in the airport....no....DH is 6'7" tall...the best i could do for him was a t-shirt...but no chance on replacing the trousers....
since then, i've carried a change of clothes for everyone....and if we're headed for orlando, a change plus a swimsuit..

I have never had my DD be sick on herself, however as a baby, she did manage to throw up onto another passenger I couldn't possibly have been prepared for that one!!

of course we can laugh now....no doubt you were mortified at the time

 

[Cyrano]

Having Virgin mislay our luggage on our first trip to WDW we put boxers/knickers and a t-shirt in everyone's hand luggage. We also spread everyone's clothes throughout the cases in case 1 or some do not arrive on time.

It is a good reminder Beth Hope DS locate their missing items

 

[2Tiggies]

of course we can laugh now....no doubt you were mortified at the time

I was - but that wasn't the worst that happened with me being solo on a 12 hour flight alone with a 2 month old baby with severe colic ..... and my remedy eventually was to collapse in the aisle in fits of giggles. The more the woman across the way screamed at me, the more hysterical I became. Laughter is really the best medicine

 

[disneyholic family]

I was - but that wasn't the worst that happened with me being solo on a 12 hour flight alone with a 2 month old baby with severe colic ..... and my remedy eventually was to collapse in the aisle in fits of giggles. The more the woman across the way screamed at me, the more hysterical I became. Laughter is really the best medicine

someone screamed at you??????????????????????
because of a crying baby?????????
what exactly are you supposed to do?
take the baby outside for a walk? stuff a sock in its mouth?
you're in an airplane...there really isn't anything you can do....

 

[2Tiggies]

someone screamed at you??????????????????????
because of a crying baby?????????
what exactly are you supposed to do?
take the baby outside for a walk? stuff a sock in its mouth?
you're in an airplane...there really isn't anything you can do....

She screamed for 12 solid hours!! Yep, when we touched down at Heathrow there were some people who started to applaud ..... She wasn't yelling at me for the screaming baby specifically at the time. The story is now a hilarious family favourite, but there is more to it ....

You know how babies end up at the bulkhead? Well we had one of those big movie screens above the Sky Cots. DD did more than just projectile vomit over my shoulder onto the unsuspecting passenger behind us (and that person was so sweet about it by the way) She also decorated the movie screen and it wasn't with milk ....!! I used half a pack of baby wipes trying to clean the mess. It was EVERYWHERE. And while the big clean up operation was in progress, the crew came down the aisle with the dinner trolley shouting "Chicken or Beef?" Well the irony was too much for me and at that point I ended up in fits of uncontrollable laughter. I didn't know what else to do And the lady opposite told me very plainly "It's not funny you know. It's disgusting! We're about to eat our dinner ...." Well by that point I was crying with laughter and had hiccups. It was like a slap stick comedy show. Most entertaining flight I have ever had for sure!

 

[loobzuk]

I can only guess she didn't have children - my first instinct would have been to help you! Does sound incredibly funny and I think I would have also laughed when they started offering dinner - the only other option would have been to cry but maybe that would have satisfied her.

Severe colic is just one of those things that you can't do anything about at home, let alone on a plane.

 

[disneyholic family]

She screamed for 12 solid hours!! Yep, when we touched down at Heathrow there were some people who started to applaud ..... She wasn't yelling at me for the screaming baby specifically at the time. The story is now a hilarious family favourite, but there is more to it ....

You know how babies end up at the bulkhead? Well we had one of those big movie screens above the Sky Cots. DD did more than just projectile vomit over my shoulder onto the unsuspecting passenger behind us (and that person was so sweet about it by the way) She also decorated the movie screen and it wasn't with milk ....!! I used half a pack of baby wipes trying to clean the mess. It was EVERYWHERE. And while the big clean up operation was in progress, the crew came down the aisle with the dinner trolley shouting "Chicken or Beef?" Well the irony was too much for me and at that point I ended up in fits of uncontrollable laughter. I didn't know what else to do And the lady opposite told me very plainly "It's not funny you know. It's disgusting! We're about to eat our dinner ...." Well by that point I was crying with laughter and had hiccups. It was like a slap stick comedy show. Most entertaining flight I have ever had for sure!

you poor thing!! didn't that woman realise you were even more upset than she was....here you are, all by yourself, stuck in a tiny metal tube, 6 miles up in the sky, with a clearly ill baby, your baby, whom you can't help because you don't know what's wrong and you're probably upset by the fact that the baby is crying and you think something's wrong and what can you do, as you're being held hostage for 12 hours...
it's an impossible situation.....and 12 hours of crying would be upsetting all by itself - but in that scenario it's beyond upsetting because not only do you have a audience of hundreds, you feel terrible that you're bothering them.......
what can i say - what a witch (actually rhymes with witch, but the disboard will blank it out)...

doesn't she know that sh*t happens (pun intended)...

i don't think i ever flew alone with the kids when they were babies....we flew tons of times from the day they were born, but it was always DH and me...and that was hard enough..i can't imagine having to do that 13 hour flight alone...