Blackhawk Pack List

Seriously Overloaded Car 1
Originally uploaded by blankstrider

- 'Shroom's & Lolli's suitcase (with 9 pairs of everything)

- Air Boss's duffle with work clothes (once we're on the road, who cares if the Dockers get all wrinkled!)

- Air Boss's & my suitcase (with 9 pairs of everything)

- two more duffles (don't know what's in 'em but must be worth shoving in the mini-van)

- total of five backpacks (one for each kid, one with laptop, one with camera, and one doubling as my purse)

- two portable file boxes (one actually filled with shoes)

- two travel "briefcases" (filled with important stuff like crayons, color books, stickers, and markers)

- Air Boss's toolbox (just in case we can't find the other one that is on the moving truck)

- a 17" LCD monitor (in case the kids want to watch DVD's on a larger screen . . . ha, like that's the real reason why it's in the van)

- two fishing rods (in case we have a hard time finding the Golden Arches . . . we can always resort to finding our dinner)

- wedding attire (including shoes) for the entire family

- two coolers to fit: a case of water, a case of drink boxes, two 12-packs of soda, and a case of soymilk (whatever doesn't fit into the coolers, we'll have to stuff into the 14 cup holders in the Blackhawk)

- a box of miscellanous stuff (like snacks, dryer sheets (!?!), baby wipes, wet Swiffers, and who knows what else)

- a bag of 8 pink-wrapped gifts (for Lolli to unwrap one each day on the road), 8 blue-wrapped gifts (for 'Shroom to unwrap one each day on the road), and 10 red-wrapped gifts for both to unwrap for each eay (thank you Laurie and Juliette for your thoughtfulness!)

- 2.5 gallon fish tank with all the accessories (minus the water) . . . oh, and the little blue guy, Omigee (he's going to blog about the adventure as well)

- about 10 lbs of AAA guidebooks and corresponding maps

- half a dozen pocket packs of tissues in case we need to smell the roses (yeah, that's right) on the side of the road

- a not-even-half-filled 60GB iPod jammed with podcast sermons, books on CD's, the ENTIRE bible, too many kiddie songs to count, and every CD we own

- a GPS, a radar detector, two cell phone chargers, a laptop AC power inverter, and a request to Toyota to make mini-vans with AT LEAST six power outlets

Yup . . . I think we'll get about 12 miles to the gallon . . . 6 if we run the air conditioner.

[Thanks to Blankstrider for the awesome photo!]