Three Versions of How to Pack

Spencer's version:

• Print off list 9:00pm the night before leaving for Scout Camp at 4:30am.

• Grab Dad's hairbrush, the family tube of toothpaste (without the lid), a pack of gum, and your sister's socks.

• Casually throw items into any random pocket of bag.

• At 10:00pm inform your Mom that you absolutely have to have a bike lock or you'll have to walk the 3/4 mile to the Scout classes instead of biking with all your friends.

• Roll your eyes and loudly sigh when Mom asks if you remembered sunblock and bug spray.

• Go to bed at 11:00pm totally at peace that Mom had to send out a desperate email to locate a bike lock, then a frantic rush to pick it up, and totally oblivious to the fact that you have no underwear, deodorant, or toothbrush in your bag.********************************************************************************

Cami's version:

• Print off list 5 days before Girls' Camp starts.

• Immediately start telling Mom all of the items your wardrobe lacks.

• Go on clothes shopping trip to Unique to fill in those wardrobe gaps.

• Three days before, start packing your clothing into a duffel bag.

• Two days before start doing your own laundry to make sure favorite clothes are through the wash in time. Bringing clothes upstairs--optional. The basement hallway is much easier for clean clothes dumping.

• Call your friend to find out what she's bringing.

• One day before, give Mom a list of the things you're still lacking.

• Set the clothes you're going to wear out the night before.

• Call your friend no fewer than four times the day you're leaving to make sure you're packing "right".

• Finally leave right on time with the entire list checked and double checked and still worry that you've forgotten something. **************************************************************************************

Lara's version:

• Decide on Tuesday that I would like to go to Grandmother's funeral in Star Valley, Wyoming on Saturday.

• Discover that frequent flier miles go twice as far if I leave on a Wednesday rather than any other day.

• Realize that in order to be able to leave the next day that I have a HUGE, long list of things to do.

• Spend the evening grocery shopping, talking to Mom, getting caught up on the blog, leaving a few comments, uploading pictures to computer, and wondering whether I will need to check in a bag or not.

• Finally dye my hair, so I won't have to see all those long lost cousins with gray roots.

• At midnight, drag myself up to get the bag out of the attic and wonder where the night went...

Um, yeah. For the rest of my version, you may as well look at Spencer's.