drive down entertainment...

[DramaQueen]

okay, so my family is driving down in august.
it's gonna be about 3 days there (from ontario, with a bunch of detours/pitstops.) Me & my sister have done the drive many times bfore, but this time my cousins & thier parents are joining us. (ages 14 & 10)

We're taking 2 seperate cars, and we have 2 portable DVD players, but I was just wondering if anyone had anything else to do in the car to keep entertained. Me & my sister have made a pact to be nice to each other for the whole way and to not fight at all, but our cousin (the 10 year old) can tend to be a bit of an annoyance when she is not being entertained or preoccupied with something.

What do you guys usually do to keep entertained on the way to the World?

 

[pacificnorthwester]

Put in a CD of Disney songs and sing to all you're favorites; Corny. . . but effective!

 

[DramaQueen]

Put in a CD of Disney songs and sing to all you're favorites; Corny. . . but effective!

hah. thanks!
i think my sister has a disney playlist on her ipod! so that should come in handy.

and we bought little portable board games for my little cousin today, so hopefully that'll keep her entertained too

 

[PatriotsRule]

I look at people in the cars around mine and make up stories about them in my head. Don't know if a lot of other people do that lol.

 

[Sparx]

I sleep. a lot. DVDs that you all like, music. you could get a few books to read. and LOTS of snacks.

and if you have a very annoying person riding with you, you'd be surprised what wonders a bag of rope and ducttape can do.

 

[DramaQueen]

I sleep. a lot. DVDs that you all like, music. you could get a few books to read. and LOTS of snacks.

and if you have a very annoying person riding with you, you'd be surprised what wonders a bag of rope and ducttape can do.

hahaha thanks sparx! i'll keep that in mind

 

[DramaQueen]

I look at people in the cars around mine and make up stories about them in my head. Don't know if a lot of other people do that lol.

cool idea! thanks!!!

p.s; ewan mcgregor rocks!! XD

 

[BeachBabi0]

well, ive driven down there once and i am again in august(the 12th till the 18th or 19th, i cant remember). last time, i packed a million things- cards, handheld video games, you name it! well i ended up watching movies the whole time. you will have like one and a half times longer than me, though. i just wanna say, dont worry about it you dont really have to pack all that much to get there!

 

[KatieIsSoPR]

I have a weird obsession with truck stops, but the little pamplets you get at them are usually quite funny. I got a bumper sticker of a dinosaur and a cardboard peach on a stick in georgia last time I went down. Bring a lot of magazines and some sharpies and draw on peoples faces, that never gets old. Hmmm, it's cliche, but bring a book. I really like The Lovely Bones and The Perks Of Being a Wallflower for books that don't get boring. umm, I like to sleep too. I always stay up all night before a road trip, then i can sleep for the first day. Is your cousin to old to fall for "The Quiet game?"

 

[DramaQueen]

I have a weird obsession with truck stops, but the little pamplets you get at them are usually quite funny. I got a bumper sticker of a dinosaur and a cardboard peach on a stick in georgia last time I went down. Bring a lot of magazines and some sharpies and draw on peoples faces, that never gets old. Hmmm, it's cliche, but bring a book. I really like The Lovely Bones and The Perks Of Being a Wallflower for books that don't get boring. umm, I like to sleep too. I always stay up all night before a road trip, then i can sleep for the first day. Is your cousin to old to fall for "The Quiet game?"

yeah i love collecting pamphlets for wierd tourist attractions.
you got some really cool stuff!! a cardboard peach on a stick! who doesn't want one of those!?

and i didnt even THINK of the quiet game! You miss, are a genius

 

[Babyjustrun]

sleep.
bring a note pad & scribble on it or what have you.
there's a game that you can play if you can actually see out the windows (if you're going to Disney, you might be stuffed to death in that car)

whenever you see a license plate that spells something, you hit the person next to you before they do. violent but it works.
& you can read the road signs xD

 

[Princess Ash]

SLEEP X 100...

If you about it being 3 days...and you maybe get 10-12 hours of sleep a night...are you stopping in between? You MUST have to...

If you can get away with it...DON'T sleep at the hotels. Stay up all night entertaining yourself with books, television, w/e. Just DON'T go to sleep. Then that day you have 10-12 hours of sleep that you missed the night before that you can kill on the ride. Trust me...I stayed up all night for a trip to VA (12 hours-ish from MA) and I slept over 3/4 of it. Just make sure you have headphones to drone out everyone else and a pillow castle to be comfy!

Other than sleep...

What everyone else said. Movies, cards, handheld games, books...

 

[milkabum]

It took us 24 hours to get to Florida from Mississauga.
Play the license plate game: Spell out a word or phrase (like hot dog) and spell them out by the license plates. 1 letter per license plate, and you have to do it in order but you can switch up the rules if you like, of course.

 

[Sparx]

Someone mentioned fliers for tourist traps. I collect business cards. Every place that has one, I get it. I've got hundreds. It took my mom three or four days to figure out what I was doing our last trip. So maybe something like that for every restaurant you go to?

btw, I know that I'm weird.