i went around collecting medications to bring. i am not really a 'medicine' person so i was surprised that i could fill a gallon zip lock bag with things like aleve and decongestants. i also used it as a time to purge a lot of expired meds. in case i need to give the kids something for a fever, i would rather not give them stuff that expired in 06... i had bronchitis a year ago and went through 3 huge bottles of cough medicine so i know what i have in that department is fresh.
a few weeks ago we started thinking about how we were going to get everything over to the netherlands. we had grand visions of shipping some stuff over so it would be there before we arrived. however, since we didn't get it done before we went to mexico that never happened. we bought 3 army duffle bags to augment our luggage collection and they are proving to be very useful. once i laundered them to get the dessert storm dust off of them they look brand new! and man, do they hold a lot of stuff! luckily with mike's united 1k status we are allowed 3 bags/person up to 70lbs each for free. and while we certainly will not be checking 12 bags we will be carrying more luggage than we have ever taken before. in fact, i need to figure out how to get us from the airport to our new place. there is no way we can manage the luggage (and the children who will have had to sleep a full night's sleep on the plane) while taking the very convenient train into central station and then a metro or tram to the house. must investigate this further.
Transport back and forth from the airport was a sticky issue for us as well. We took a cab even though I had to hold Geneva - no car seat. On the way back to the airport, the cab driver had little kids and kept extra seats in his cab just in case.
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