What do you take into the parks with you?

[kimsuenew]

Although I don't want to have a huge backpack or anything when we go to the parks, I do realize that there are some things we should take with us. I would like to try to bring the minimum amount of "stuff" with us. Both of my boys and I will have a fashionable - I mean functional - fanny pack to take to the parks with them so I can avoid being the family pack animal. What do you take with you? Any suggestions are appreciated. TIA

I use a Jansport Sling bag. I try to pack as light as possible, but I have a few "must have items" I cannot do without...

My billfold
Hand sanitizer wipes hand sanitizer gel
Small Kleenex tissue soft pack
Inhaler
All of our meds
Small Tylenol & Dramamine
Gluclose tabs
Digital Camera and extra memory
Small sunscreen
Lip balm with SPF
KTTW card & Photopass card
ADR list
Itenerary
Cell Phone
My folding cane and its pouch
Face powder, mini gloss, mini mascara (to freshen up before a TS meal)
Several baggies
Small hair brush
Spare contacts for the 3 of us and a small solution
Blood sugar monitor and testing supplies
Gum
Trial size deoderant "just in case"
Clean shirt (just in case I get sweaty or it rains)
M&M tube full of alternating quarters and pennies + a small empty tests strip tube for pressed ones to stay in.

I organize it by using baggies as well... all medical items go in one bag, sanitizer wipes and sanitizer into another, sunscreen, and lip balm in another,
make-up items and deoderant in another, clean shirt in a large Ziploc, and spare baggies go in a baggie. I found by doing this it sped up the search last year! I had a couple of times where they truly looked at every baggie and even opened my camera cases, other times they just glanced.

 

[jamescorey]

In my pack, the following:

-A small pak towel
-a small tube with ibuprofen and immodium AD
-two poncho's (one for me, one for the wife)
-Digital camera with extra battery
-a laminated 3x5 index card with ADR's and other useful info
-Hidden Mickey book
-pen and small notepad
-clean socks if not wearing Crocs
-moleskin cut into various sizes
-small soft pack of baby wipes
-a couple of ziploc bags of varying sizes and a couple of pieces of tin foil in case I have left overs.
-a Camelbak 70ml dromedary, partially frozen, then add BOTTLED water on top. To refill, simply add free ice from a vendor. The dromedary is stored in a neoprene sleeve (cut from an old wet suit), and doesn't leak nor does it get hot.

Everything packs into my Mountainsmith Lumbar Pack. It weighs nothing and I don't have to remove it while on rides. As for KTTW cards, ID, money, etc...I usually keep those in my wallet in my FRONT pocket so that I don't have to worry about a pick-pocket.

 

[goofysgirl80]

I take a bookbag or a small bag with a wallet, cell phone, and camera. Keep it simple. The less you carry aroud the better! God bless and happy Mickey

 

[Kat73]

hmmm lessee...
walletish items and appropriate money and tickets
small bottle of sunscreen, sometimes
an empty folded up plastic bag from one of the shops- in case it rains
camera
cell phone
sunglasses and hat I usually have on the whole time, but room to stash them

and this time I'm going alone so I'll also take

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small journal with ADR info and other OCD-trip planning whatnot
about eight thousand pens and sharpies....okay I'd take that anyway
and possibly a paperback book, sometimes

 

[PocahontasLookALike]

Poncho
Digi cam/extra memory card
A small pill holder with a few of the following: pepto, Advil, tylenol
Moleskin (pre-cut)
Chapstick
Antibacterial Wipes (the individually wrapped ones)
Hidden Mickey Book
My Nintendo DS (yes, I'm 29 years old and I own a DS. And it's pink to boot! It keeps me entertained while waiting for a show to start)
Cell phone
Plastic bag (to stash my backpack in on the wet rides)
A FEW snacks just incase we get hungry and are still in line

I'll definitely be adding the 'BrushUps'! Such a good idea when teethbrushing isn't an option in the parks!

When we visit MK or AK, we pack an extra to store in a locker that has:
extra socks/shoes incase it rains. Since we typically stay in DHS or Epcot area, we can just walk back to the hotel if it pours and we need to change.

 

[thebigk]

This is our first trip. My wife bought a messenger bag. Planning on carrying the following:

Chapstick
Sun Block
Cards (credit, room, ID, etc)
Cell Phone
Digital Camera
Digital Camera Battery
Water Bottle
Medicines (TUMS, Advil, etc)
Sunglasses/Glasses (We're all blind!)
List of ADRs

 

[vcgirl925]

I'm going bare minimum! I hate overpacking and carrying tons of things.

I'm going to bring my baggellini messanger bag.
2 autograph books and pens
Camera
Comb ( to fix me and my dd hairs for pics...lol)
Little bottle of sunblock on a carabeener ...hooks onto the backpack or stroller.
lanyard for tickets, fp's, disney gift card
3 diapers for dd and small pack of wipes
pressed penny books and money for pressed pennies
a couple little snacks for kids

That's it! We can get free water at the parks in a cup with ice and we have the ddp for snacks/drink if we want one.

 

[kimis]

My dh and I each wear a fanny bag-that way it isn't so heavy and awkward.

This is what he puts in his:
chapstick
sunscreen (small tube)
small yellow camping towel (to sit on or dry off after ride)
wallet
a poncho
park maps
cell phone
I put in mine:
wallet
medicenes (tylonel or advil put in my change part of wallet)
lip stick and lip gloss ( one tube each)
a pen
a camping towel
poncho
digital camera
sunglasses
an colored index card with our ADR numbers on them ( so when I look in
wallet I will see the color and pull out the card if I need it).
cell phone
moleskin, body glide and band aides
hidden mickey book

It sounds like a lot of stuff but it really isn't. We don't take water bottles anymore because all of the stands will give you water if you ask.