14
Nov
08

The actual Packing list (so-far)

Based on the list provided by some friends, this is what we’ve got so far:

Cosmetics for days of actual hajj/pilgrimage

  • 4 travel sized toothpastes with mild scent
  • 4 travel sized bottles of vaseline petroleum jelly (for our lips!)
  • 1 large bottle of vaseline petroleum jelly (dad will be in special clothes and it might chafe ;-) so he’ll refill his from this
  • 2 travel sized eucerin, fragrance-free creams (they say lots of cream! going to be very cold…ha! but we shall see…deserts can cool down a lot in the night…but about 2 million people?)
  • 1 big bottle of fragrance-free cream, will fill two other travel sized containers with it
  • huggies baby wipes, fragrance free, alcohol free (we had left over and it made sense)
  • T/sal unscented, alcohol free shampoo
  • coppertone travel sized sunscreen, unscented
  • huggies sunscreen unscented
  • box of dust masks
  • tonnes of simple soap, unscented
  • simple soap face wash
  • 6 avon unscented deodorant
  • 1 mitchum unscented dedorant
  • bandages…hehe
  • 2 visine eye drops
  • unscented powder

medicinal stuff:

  • 1 lg vicks and 2 flat tin, t/s vicks
  • 4 little bottles of olbas oil
  • 2 bottles of alcolado/rubbing alcohol
  • vitamin C, lots of it for all of us
  • 2 bottles of tylenol rapid release
  • 1 bottle tylenol arthritis
  • 1 bottle panadol
  • 1 bottle advil
  • 1 box allegra D
  • 2 bottles and 1 t/s muscle rub
  • lots of stuff for sore throats: vicks chlorospetic (2 boxes), strepsils (4 boxes), olbas pastilles (2 boxes), vicks cough drops (3 boxes) and some other lozenge mom got that i don’t know
  • 30 gravol and 30 of non-drowsy alternative
  • 2 desitin (one is for niece)
  • cough syrup: buckley’s, robitussin, african sea coconut
  • bisolvon tablets
  • lots of our vitamins
  • lots of acid stuff
  • immodium, lomotil and something else
  • 10 boxes (ok 4 is to carry for bro and SIL) of panadol multisymptom, half non-drowsy
  • 2 boxes tylenol sinus
  • lots of antibiotics
  • ankle, wrist, back, neck wraps/braces
  • baby aspirin
  • something for if we get allergies
  • stronger pain killers
  • and our regular prescription medication

Other things:

  • shampoo: 1 bottle i like and 1 my sister likes…
  • other cream with fragrance
  • pads etc
  • flushable wipes etc
  • 4 tubes of toothpaste…we all seem to have preferences…
  • some laundry detergent for hand washing
  • t/s shampoo…we’re overnighting in caracas on our way back

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