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For today’s muffin tin lunch I am featuring a road trip tin. The Nutella covered bread car body has blueberry tires, but the tires could easily we replaced by any of the spare tires in the tin.

JDaniel has cucumber, carrot, tomato, franks, and sandwich cookie tire replacements available to him if the blueberries can’t make the whole trip.

Why am I featuring a car trip tin?

JDaniel and I are joining my mom, my sister from Atlanta and her kids on a road trip to see my sister in New York. It will be loads of fun when stop in Hershey, PA to explore the amusement park. My sister from New York and her kids are meeting us there and then will continue north to NY to my sister‘s house, but I am worried about something.

I worry about the length of time we will be in the car. It is a long car ride. JDaniel has been on long trips before, but was much younger and slept most of the way. I can just hear him asking if we are there yet when we have only been in the car for a short time. He asked over and over again on the trip to Augusta, GA last weekend when we went to see his Nana.

He will be able to use the iPad. I just downloaded two new apps for him to explore on the trip. JDaniel has to brand new headphones to listen to the apps through. He and I searched all over Greenville for headphones that weren’t 100% plastic that had volume control. He loves them. JDaniel loves to use the iPad so, I am hoping he will be able to play with apps for awhile and we won’t all here what he is listening too.

During the trip, he will get to trade the iPad with his nine-year-old cousin for his DVD player. That will be fun too. He loves to watch movies or as he calls them shows.

I really don’t want him to be plugged in the whole trip though so, I am bringing along a few other things to do. We are bringing some of the things you suggested to me when I asked you on Facebook about travel items.

What is in our road trip bag?

A cookie sheet with magnets to play with as mentioned by Lisa of Two Bears Farm. Craft to Art.com thought magnets were a great idea too and thought a cookie tin would be a great place to store and display magnets.

Window markers and a pack of Windex wipes as well a pack of post-it notes to write on and stick on the windows as suggested by Holly of Holly’s Hobbie and Darbee Days

Surprise toys as recommended by Denice Castillo. I found a couple at the dollar store.

A DVD player and Leapster were Sara DeNike of The Will to See ideas. We have the DVD coming from Atlanta.