Trip Report: Blue Mountains, Boston Bay, Kingston

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here's a list of things we brought with us that were useful or that we used a lot:

cooler bag (i always bring one whenever i travel)

inflatable beach ball

binoculars (we totally used them!!!)

incense (i brought hem's black magic this time)

citronella candles in travel tins (not really necessary, but they smell great and were nice to have at strawberry hill)

dry roasted peanuts (we ate 'em)

assorted games (dominos, yahtzee, uno, old maid and bananagrams)

hydrocortisone creme (i always bring this plus bacitracin. ti boss got a small rash from a prickly plant, so they came in handy this trip)

tums (i always need tums)

flat metal bottle cap opener (so i can stick it in my carry-on without worrying about it getting confiscated)

pocket knife (packed in a checked bag)

audiobooks (for me and for ti boss, downloaded to our ipods)

a 300-piece jigsaw puzzle

a tablecloth (we used it as a table cloth at strawberry hill and something to lie out on at the beach in boston bay)

a bottle of champagne

a bottle of hennessey

needle to inflate/deflate soccer ball

flashlights

water shoes (the guys used theirs when we went to nanny falls, but i just stuck with my teva sandals)

lysol disinfectant wipes (got in the habit of carrying them around after the earthquake. they're really good for when you're driving around a lot and find yourself eating sticky stuff like fruit and patties)




things we brought and didn't use:

an inflatable pool raft and an inflatable inner tube (brand new, bought specially for the trip. they never even made it out of the backpack)

a soccer ball (ti boss got pool gravity at strawberry hill, where there was a perfect lawn available to kick the ball around)

antibiotics (i always carry them with me)

several paperbacks i thought i might want to re-read

a book of mazes

an umbrella

make-up (lol, who was i kidding???)