To overpack or underpack?

So Sunday morning my sister-in-law Tami called and asked if we wanted to go to Disneyland that day. Scott had a rare day off on Monday and we decided to go for it. He has a business credit card that has earned enough points to get us some free rooms at a Sheraton across from Disneyland so that helped a lot with the cost.

I decided to pack very light since we would only be gone one day. All 4 of us fit our things in one tiny little carry-on bag. That's it, the one tiny bag included all our clothes, pajamas, hair dryer, make up, shoes...everything. We don't have babies anymore so why pack a ton of extra clothes just in case, right? Wrong. So on the drive the kids slept half the way. Shortly after they woke up Ty started feeling sick. We stopped at an In & Out Burger to eat and made a couple of false alarm trips to the bathroom. He could eat fries. I grabbed a couple of paper to-go bags and we headed out again. About 2 hours later and 0nly 10 minutes from the hotel, we hear the throwing up. I tell him that he's such a good boy to throw up in the bag and he'll feel much better soon. Anyway, there are 2 or 3 napkins under the bag that he's done with and I need them to wipe his face. I pick up the bag off the back floor to move it up front so that I can get to the napkins and being made of thin paper...it breaks right as I'm transferring it over my seat to the front. I didn't think to double bag which was Scott's fabulous after thought. So I'm sitting in a lake of you know what. It's on my clothes, seat and all over the front floor. Sick. I only had the 2 or 3 napkins to clean up the huge mess. This is where it would have been nice to have a baby because we would have had wipes. Luckily 10 minutes of agony later, we got to the hotel and Tami had lots of wipes. I cleaned a majority of it up but you can never get rid of the smell. Luckily I brought separate pants and a shirt for the next day at Disneyland.

That night we figure out room sharing. Did I mention that half Scott's family decided to go last minute? The 4 of us, Tami and her family of 5, Eric & Laura with their baby, his mom and 2 sisters and lastly his oldest sister Lori and her husband with their 8 kids plus a friend! So anyway most of us are staying at the same hotel and decide that his mom will share a room with our family. There were only 2 double beds and a chair w/ottoman in the corner. Kaycie was the lucky one who got to sleep in the chair. In the middle of the night, she got into bed with us and being the tiny bed that it was, her and I were spooning. About 2am I wake up to a very warm sensation spreading over my pregnant belly. She peed on me. Ugh!!! I already hadn't had much sleep and this was bound to take another hour or 2 out of my night. I couldn't put my comfy travel clothes back on because they had throw up on them and my pajamas now had pee on them. I had to put something else one since I was sharing a room with my mother-in-law so Scott decided to give me his t-shirt he had been wearing to sleep in. I wasn't about to sleep in maternity jeans and a long sleeve shirt. Those were for Disneyland. I tried to sleep the rest of the night on a couple layers of bath towels. Fun stuff.

The next day was Disneyland where I fully expected to be soiled in some other random way. Everything went well though. We had a lot of fun. Kaycie was scared of every ride in the park except Autopia and the teacups. She was even scared of Alice in wonderland and Winnie the Pooh. Anything that had a car entering through doors into the dark was not her cup of tea. We made her go on Haunted Mansion and Pirates since those were some of the few rides I could go on. She was not thrilled. She did have fun with all her cousins in between rides though. We left Disneyland at 7:30 or so to go back to the hotel and get our car. Scott had to work the next day and we arrived home at about 2am. It was so fun though. I'm glad we did it. Next time I think I'll go back to the whole overpacking thing though (as much as Scott hates it) and I'll bring lots of plastic bags.

(Far left) Dinner in Downtown Disney.(Right) Tough guy with strange women in the background.