Its 1:30am as I type this.  Usually I’m tucked away in bed by now catching up on episodes of TV shows dvr’ed from last season…but I figured that since we plan on leaving for Atlantic City early on Saturday I should get a head start on packing instead of waiting until tomorrow night.

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I am a notorious overpacker.  But most of the time I will wear every piece of clothing and every pair of shoes I bring.  (I think I brought seven pairs of shoes to Aruba last year…and I wore EVERY ONE!)  I have been known in college to change my outfit 2-3 times per day – morning classes were usually attended in sweats…afternoon classes was jeans and a tshirt and at night if I went out for dinner or drinks that would be another outfit…and then sometimes back into another set of comfy sweats for lounging around in the dorms!  Because we are driving to our destination instead of flying, I don’t feel as guilty about overpacking this time!

During lunch today I went to the super market and picked up all of the non-Asian groceries.  (I can’t wait to cook the Cornish hens I got…they’re SO cute!) I separated them all between perishable and non and packed them away accordingly.  I also packed up all the pantry items and things from home I wanted to bring.  Since we don’t go down to AC that often, I always forget what my aunt has stocked in her condo so I figure its better to bring it with us just in case so we don’t have to go hunting for it when we are there.  Earlier this week I was able to pack up all of the toiletries, hair and makeup goodies.  (ahhh the life of a project manager…)  The boy is responsible for all of the electronics..cameras, laptops, and cables, etc. Tomorrow I’ll go and pick up all of the Asian groceries and set everything up so that all we have to do is load the car in the morning before we hit the road!

Seems like a lot of packing, huh?  IT IS!  For groceries I anticipate that we will have three totes worth…maybe 4…yeah most likely 4.  But in my defense I’m saving us a lot of money by cooking while we’re down there instead of going out every day!  And plus, I think that dining out for all of your meals is grossly unhealthy for extended periods…our arteries will thank us later.  I managed to fit all of my clothes into a large gym bag…again…in my defense…the weather is only going to be in the 50′s when we are there-sweaters and such are so much thicker than summer clothes so that’s why my bag appears to be stuffed to the gills!  Since we are there for so many days, I’ll be taking advantage of her laundry room and also mixing and matching pieces so it doesn’t get dull!   My last bag (yeah if you’re counting that would be number 6) has all of our toiletries – I am bringing a lot of full sized products since we are there for so long and there’s two of us…taking travel sized things would take just as much room!  I packed a lot more hair and makeup products than I usually would have if we were hopping onto a plane.  This vacation we are looking to doing a lot of nothing and relaxing…and playing with hair and makeup relaxes me!

Hopefully the boy doesn’t have that many bags of his own…I think he should just have his clothes, laptop and camera bags.   So there you have it 9 bags for our little trip.  :)