We went to beach vacation and realized I forgot to bring sunscreen and goggles. We had to buy new one.

On my honeymoon our room was infested with bed bugs. We left 3 days early without a refund.

I fell in a fish hatchery of trout when I was younger and my daddy had to reach in and grab me. It ruined my whole vacation and I did not want to do anything but sit in the cabin. I also had a bad bike wreck while looking and eyeing a boy and flipped on the concrete pavement and had to be rushed to the ER. I had to get a shot and pain meds from being all banged up. Lesson learned to never ride a bike looking at a boy when the pavement is wet :)

the weather prep when I am packing is always my mistake - no matter how much i think I'm packed properly i am always too cold/too hot/no raincoat packed/wrong shoes/etc

Our last long trip was when our youngest of 4 was a baby. 6 months old. We had everything. Or so we thought. I thought we had every essential item we would need to travel on the road and camp for 2 weeks. We drive 700 miles over night to get to stop one to find...oops. Everything but a bed for the baby. No bouncer, or pack and play..We forgot it! How? But we had all 4 kids and ourselves and enough supplies strapped to the roof of our van, we would have been ok Rio be gone a month. But. No baby bed. But we had the bottom drawer of a wide stable dersser @ the cabin we were at. I pulled it out, lined it with blankets add layed her in. That was a mistake. She woke up in a new place in a pulled out drawer and screamed! She never slept in her own crib by the time we made it home since. She sleeps with us now. Poor babe.

When Dad decided to take us to St. George for the first time, I thought it would be a blast! It was. That is, it was until the drive home. Turns out too much "fun in the sun" can lead to a miserable and barf filled ride home. I was stuck in the back middle seat of the car, squished between my younger siblings (both too young to be out of their booster seats) as they puked the whole six and half hours home. Yikes!

My husband is a notorious over- planner! Last year he overbooked both us and our friends (and their kids) on our vacation together and in turn everyone was ridiculously cranky and overly exhausted. To add insult to injury, I left my anxiety meds at my in-laws' snowbird house 90 minutes away, my son was constipated and my daughter had diarrhea. Two kids with stomach issues, two other kids with attitude issues, their parents begrudgingly reprimanding them for being insulting to their friend and me having a panic attack at the most magical place on earth? Nope. This year we decided to take a trip two weeks before they were available to join us and I made it clear to my husband - this is over my birthday week. We will all have moments to take a deep breath and relax!

We forgot to pack condoms and I ended up pregnant. LOVE my daughter, but oopsie! lol

Trying to plan something to do every single minute, with not much relaxation. Not a good idea.

I have an over packing issue. Laundry can always be done. I just learned that, the hard way.

Left the allergy medicine home...while going on a hiking vacation...can you believe it!!??

A giant storm knocked the power out and we had no power for a whole day!

We always seem to have trouble when it comes to flying. We have a 2 year old so we have to check in at counter not kiosk. When we get there, my husband cannot find his id and the agent would not accept student id, social and 3 major credit cards. My husband had to drive an hour back to the house while the kids and I went through security and frantically waited not knowing if he would make it in time. He brought back his birth certificate and was allowed to come through. He boarded the plane as they were shutting the doors. When we landed we found his id laying on top just inside the suit case. The time before that we vacationed to California as always but this time was a little different. On our way back to Vegas to catch our flight home to Houston, there was a jumper on the I-15 which had the road to be shut down. What normally was a 3.5 hour drive turned into a 6 hour drive. The kids and I made the plain and we waited to see if he would make it after returning the rental

When I was young we went to Pensacola, FL on a family trip, I decided to lay on the beach while my parents went and did a few things that weren't of interest to me. Well being young (and VERY dumb) I laid out in the sun, pasty white.. on the WHITE sand..and got red lobster BURNED!!! I got so sick, almost passed out in the bathroom, had to lie in the bathtub with cold towels on me. The worst vacation of my life.

On a cruise for my sister's wedding, I didn't pack any underwear at all! I completely forgot! That made for an interesting trip and lots of laughs as well!