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Whoevers not driving in our car is sleeping. We try to get a head start on our sleep on the drive down and on the drive home, we are tired!
DH also has his blackberry and usually brings a magazine to flip through. When we stop for gas at the halfway point, he usually buys another magazine. I'll bring a small cross stitch or have my plans to review when I'm not sleeping.
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I could only sleep for just so long on the trip to Disney. Watched movies with the kids and we did the licence plate thing where you write down all the plates you see on different veh. I didnt have a nintendo DS then but would probably play that if it didnt make me sick. We fly now so our drive is only to Phila. dont get bored on that trip.
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ok, what we do even on trips down to the shore, is MAD LIBS, everyone can play, and we take turns picking out the words, and take turns picking out the one who writes.
and for the drinker, I would use a travel coffee mug, so its not an open container but dont let the drinker drive AT ALL! NO NO NO :
OMG I never even thought about DH and I on our next trip! LOL I thank everyone on this thread for there idea! As for the drinking that could actually make more of a mess after the drinking is done! LOL
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I have to agree with the iPods, and portable game systems. DH and I load up our iPods with music on one and movies on the other so whomever isn't drivng can watch a movie. DH has a Sony PSP and that even keeps him occupied at work when he has a lot of downtime, not only on long trips. I have a Nintendo DS and I usually get games that have a lot of games on them like the ones that have multiple board games, or Uno, Skip Bo, I also love challenging myself to a game of Deal or No Deal, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, The Price is Right, etc. They have Soduku, Cross Word Puzzles, Brain Age, and other games Adults love. Mario Party for DS is also a ton of fun which you can play multi players too. You can get cross word puzzle books, soduku books, word searches, books, Discman or iPod with your fave music on it, if you're into knitting or cross stitching, you can bring that with (my grandmother was knitting the whole way back from Syracuse from my sister's College Graduation), coloring books and crayons or markers are also great for adults. My sister and I still bring those with us on long trips
Wow look at all the replies already. Well the drinking thing is a no no, since my sister is a bit of a slosh and she gets hyper when she drinks......lol. The Madlibs idea sounds like fun and my son happens to have several madlib books he got for Christmas, hope he didn't do them all yet......lol. I know the trip down we'll have lots to talk about and time should fly by in no time, it's the looong trip back I'm worried about. We talked about it today though and might end up doing the journey back in two days instead of one.
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We play a game my DS's old GF taught us years ago. The first person gives the name of a famous person, real or ficticious. (preset rules on type of person or characters: movies, music, tv, we usually say any famous person or character to make more choices, variety and more fun). There have to be two names a first and last e.g. Mickey Mouse. The next person has to give a name that starts with M but the last name may start with whatever like Miley Cyrus, the next person uses one that starts with the C from Cyrus........and on and on. We go from one to another in a circle so everyone gets a turn and continue until we have exhausted all ideas, this can go on and on for a LOOOOONG time. You can make this difficult by narrowing to book authors, or polictical figures if you wish but we always kept it easy so everyone has fun. Have a great trip!
We play a game my DS's old GF taught us years ago. The first person gives the name of a famous person, real or ficticious. (preset rules on type of person or characters: movies, music, tv, we usually say any famous person or character to make more choices, variety and more fun). There have to be two names a first and last e.g. Mickey Mouse. The next person has to give a name that starts with M but the last name may start with whatever like Miley Cyrus, the next person uses one that starts with the C from Cyrus........and on and on. We go from one to another in a circle so everyone gets a turn and continue until we have exhausted all ideas, this can go on and on for a LOOOOONG time. You can make this difficult by narrowing to book authors, or polictical figures if you wish but we always kept it easy so everyone has fun. Have a great trip!
That game sounds like so much fun. Too bad my sister never knew about it as kids, as we were always playing the license plate game, or playing 20 Questions on all of our car trips once we were old enough to think of things ourselves to keep occupied in the car, even with the grown ups. We'll have to try your game Has anyone gotten stuck if anyone's ever suggested Carrie Underwood and then having to think of someone with a name of U (all I can think is Uncle Sam)? Thanks for the idea. DH and I might have to play that on our drive down from Virginia.
Really now, if your elbows are flying when you are knitting you are expending way too much energy. I knit in the car all the time, at least I did until I became the main driver. We like to do trivia--Disney trivia works especially well on the way back--and keep our Passporter handy plus the Imagineer guides to read out loud on the way down. We also treat ourselves to new CDs just for the trip.
And I think you should not rely too strongly on Map Quest's estimates. They are always way under in our area near Washington, D.C., which has day-long rush hours. We would take roughly 16 hours for the trip if we drove straight through from 25 miles southwest of D.C. in Virginia. Being really too old to do this anymore, we stop in SC and finish the trip the next day. When you actually exit the interstate (I-4) near Disney, you will be driving right into Disney property! How cool is that?
Hope you have a great trip--and may I add you are braver than I, taking all those people in one vehicle. You deserve some Magic!
We would always rent or buy an audio book to play, but there were only 2 of us. One of the best was Stephen Kings Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Creepy short stories to keep your imagination going while driving through creepy mountains at night Otherwise, Ipods for the people who want to listen or watch something else.
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You could also tell Ghost Stories, not so scary ones for the kids. Also like Heather had mentioned crafts, bring either some knitting thread and make friendship bracelets, hemp string to make necklaces or bracelets, or some lanyard (gimp) and make keychains. All of those are non-messy crafts that could keep you busy for hours too in a car ride.
If anyone in the car is okay with reading then take along a set of Disney trivia cards and just go around the vehicle asking everyone a question. Set a maximum number of "rounds" and the one with the most correct answers gets a prize. This can include even the kids with age appropriate questions and can be done going down to coming home to keep the magic going!
Have a wonderful time. You are very brave to take on that adventure!
We would always rent or buy an audio book to play, but there were only 2 of us. One of the best was Stephen Kings Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Creepy short stories to keep your imagination going while driving through creepy mountains at night Otherwise, Ipods for the people who want to listen or watch something else.
I read that book! The one about the finger in the sink/tub was awsome! I read the whole book and I hate reading!
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Well the drinking thing is a no no, since my sister is a bit of a slosh and she gets hyper when she drinks......lol. The Madlibs idea sounds like fun and my son happens to have several madlib books he got for Christmas, hope he didn't do them all yet......lol. I know the trip down we'll have lots to talk about and time should fly by in no time, it's the looong trip back I'm worried about. We talked about it today though and might end up doing the journey back in two days instead of one.
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