Packing recommendations?

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

ringrose and I will be attending our first Baitcon this year (with our seven month old daughter.)

We'll be staying in a cabin. What should we expect to find in the cabin?

Those of you who have been to baitcon with babies, what do you recommend we make sure to bring with us?

Looking forward to it!

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[skreeky]

We have no kids, just 2 adults, so the above advice will be more useful kid-wise. But here's a couple of notes.

Seconded on bringing something to use as a light-proof curtain!!! I also now bring a small toolbox with a hammer, nails (esp. small ones for tacking up said curtain), extra coathooks, twine, clothesline, and other things that may be useful. Some cabins have more clothes hooks than others.

We find the top bunk to be too close to the ceiling and useless as anything but storage. You do use the storage though, as floor space is precious. We sleep one person on the bottom bunk and one on a cot.

Our cabin-specific packing list includes, for two adults:
* Two twin air mattresses
* Battery powered pump for inflating/deflating mattresses
* Large battery powered lantern (there is sometimes a hook already in a rafter to hang it)
* sheets and comforters, pillows
* folding camp table with two stools (I am guessing you will not have space for this, but consider some sort of compact thing you can sit on to pull on shoes, etc.)
* hand mirror with hanging loop
* Curtain, tacks or nails, and cord to pull it back during the day.
* EARPLUGS!!! Oh, blessed blessed foam earplugs. You wouldn't think you could hear everything from a shriek to a whisper through thick log walls, but you can.

That list makes our cabin pretty homey. Then your usual camping supplies of course - flashlights, towels, bugspray, etc etc etc.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

"* EARPLUGS!!! Oh, blessed blessed foam earplugs. You wouldn't think you could hear everything from a shriek to a whisper through thick log walls, but you can."

This was what I was coming in here to post. Especially since, without cpaps, many people in our community seem to be quite *noticeable* snorers.

Also regardless of what you do at home, Baitcon cabins are not the place to let a child 'cry it out' (this is really a general sort of thing for a parent who did this last year, oblivious to the fact their child was disturbing people and we could all hear aforementioned parent being neutral to the child. It's a good parenting technique with some children; it's a really imposing thing to do in cabins where people in all adjoining cabins can hear normal speech, let alone 15 minutes of screeching).

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Sadly 15 minutes of screaming is a normal 3am wakeup for our daughter, sorry. (She doesn't always have them, but when she does, that's what happens.)