i take a clear plastic backpack. I like to look at it and see my stuff safely inside as a I’m moving from one area of the park to the next. I find it easier to look for and find items inside of it when I need them. One security person held my bag over his head and announced “Now, this is the kind of bag everyone should bring!” Kali River Rapids in Animal Kingdom supplies lockers for your bags but that is the only ride I did not bring my bag on. Ohh, I should mention I don’t do the big coasters, Everest and Aerosmith. I’ll take a break and keep everyone’s bags while they ride not because we have to but since I’m not going on we can....
1. Phone
2. Battery (I like the fuel rod. It’s compact has an adapter so it works with everyone’s phone. I can switch it out for a battery with a full charge instantly if I need to)
3. Ball cap
4. Ears
5. Bandaids Mole skin
6. Sunglasses
7. Zip lock bags
8. Tooth picks
9. Brita Water Bottle
10. Trading Pins
11. Tissues, napkins
12. Sun Screen
13. Parasol (because sometimes I am just done with the sun)
14. Small neat sheet -for sitting on the ground
15. Credit Card, ID, Annual Pass, $10 - 20 in 1’s and 5’s
16. Poncho (which i only forget when it rains)
17.Fruit, cheese, nuts for snacks.
18. A small Ratatouille Key chain as a reminder to not ever pay $16 for a Disney Scavenger Hunt Map again. Since I have not ever felt so “Ripped Off” in my life.
19. Two pair of reading glasses
I’m a commando touring the parks - there for rope drop and leave at closing time. We rent a locker for our lunch cooler (frozen bottles of water to keep our lunch cold in the cooler instead of Ice packs) and buy a nice dinner in the park. I stuff the nearly empty lunch cooler into my park for the afternoon and we all snack on what ever is left in there while we wait for the fireworks show.