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How do you Bonnaroo?
Preparation:
• Every year before I go I look at the lineup and check out music of bands I don’t know. Usually I end up with some new favorites.
• Check out the schedule before you leave, a plan of attack is essential to make it to all the shows you want to see
Clothes:
• Bandana (soaking the bandana in ice water feels awesome) And at the end of the weekend it serves as a good dust guard from the gravel
• Hat
• Chacos
• Closed toed comfy shoes for nighttime
• Clothes for hot weather and nighttime chilliness
• Sweatshirt and socks are not to be forgotten!!
Gear:
• Sunscreen
• Antibacterial soap
• Small hand soap to use at water stations (antibacterial only kills the bacteria, need hand soap to wash the filth off)
• TP
• Baby wipes (for the ladies, bring a portable pack to bring with you into centeroo in case the porties are out of tp)
• Camelbak
• Poncho
• Head lamp or flashlight to bring to centeroo at night
• Mini spray bottle with fan
Campsite:
• Tent and air mattress, although my friends have slept on cots and hammocks and loved it
• Tarps
• Canopy to set up the chilling area (multiple canopies between a big group would be best)
• Chairs
• Battery Powered lantern for campsite
• Boom box with batteries to listen to Bonnaroo radio while your at the campsite
• Extra batteries
• Fold up table among a group of people is always nice to keep food/boom box/drinks off the ground
• Power adapter for car to charge camera/phone
Food:
• Snacks like protein bars, peanut butter crackers, fruit snacks to pack in your camelbak when you go to see shows
• I try to bring mostly dry food with the exception of fruit. Ice melts fast in June and it gets expensive to keep a cooler cold.
• I avoid bringing anything that needs to be cooked because it’s so hot you don’t want to be cooking over a hot grill. What I do is eat breakfast/lunch (pb and banana sandwiches, and Wal-Mart sells an overstuffed foot long sub for $5 that lasts the whole weekend) at the campsite and buy dinner from a vendor. Prices are affordable and you’ll see everyone else eating the delicious food, believe me you’ll want it.
• Gallons of water (and drink often, I got dehydrated one year and it was not fun)
• Case of beer in cans, koozie is always nice too
• Alcohol in plastic containers
• Red Bull (& Vodka) for the perfect morning drink
• Plastic cups
• Paper plates
Showers:
Sometimes I use a gallon of water to rinse my hair, but usually just do a poor mans shower with lots of baby wipes. There are water stations close to each campsite where I brush my teeth, wash my hands, etc. Once you get over the dirty factor and realize everyone there is as dirty as you, you don’t really care about being clean.
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babies first “big” bed?
hello,
i have a 9 1/2 month old son who co-sleeps with me at night. during the day he sleeps in his cot, but even though he goes to sleep no problems, he has a habbit of waking himself when he moves about in the cot because he bumps into the sides of it when he tries to turn. at night he also takes up more than half the bed because of all his moving around and my hubby and i have been talking about maybe getting him a single bed with one of those bed guard rails so everyone can have a good night sleep, and a good nap during the day in babies case. has anyone put a child into a “big” bed before the age of 18 months and did it work out for you. if we decide to get him his own bed we won’t get it until the end of the month, so he’d be 10 months old and his new bed would still be in our bedroom.
opinions on whether this is a good or bad idea will be appreciated, have you done it and it worked out/didn’t work out. let me know, please.
All of ours were in a ‘big bed’ by the age of 9-12 months with a side guard. We never had a problem it has to be said.
Maybe we were lucky – but they all hated the cot!
One daughter said it was like waking up in a cell – and she came out of the cot at 9 months! Makes you wonder what babies are actually thinking doesnt it!
