Traveling with Cloth

First off, so so sorry I am behind on keeping this updated! We have been doing much more traveling and such this summer than I expected and obviously the two little ones keep me decently occupied. I am going to try and stay on top of it much more .. try is the key work there, haha.

I recently went on a trip to Texas from Indiana with my 3 yr old and (then) 6 week old. I went back and forth on whether or not I wanted to use the cloth diapers while traveling on the plane. I had to carry them all with me anyway in my big weekend diaper bag. I decided to just do disposable, mostly because we had been having some major poops and didn't want to risk a blowout on the plane!! I was in Texas for a week and started using the cloth diapers the day after I got there. Thankfully my family is pretty supportive of the whole thing and is willing to participate with the cloth diapers while I am there. I took approximately 30 diapers with me. I know it seems like a lot but we are kind of in a transition faze. Adelaide is getting too small for some of her newborn size diapers but not quite big enough to fit into the One Size diapers yet so I had to take a bit of both types to use while I was there. I definitely didn't even come close to using them all. I have a wetbag that holds about 15 diapers, so that is the one I always take with me when traveling. It is also nice because it hangs on doorknob very well.
This is the bag that I have, but mine is brown - how appropriate

Thankfully my mom has the same kind of washer and dryer that I have, so the washing part was easy. I also made sure to take my own laundry detergent so that I didn't have to try to adjust my washing routine to whatever detergent my mom used. To dry them I just put them out on her trampoline! She didn't have a line so I had to improvise. It worked well. In the week I was there, I washed diapers twice.
It is amazing how much it changes peoples mind once they actually see the cloth diapering at work! My mom was probably one of my biggest skeptics going into this whole thing, mostly because she kept thinking of how cloth diapering was in the "good ole days" and how she did it. By the end of my trip she was telling me how good it was going and how much easier it was that she ever expected! I also go comments about how cute they are (of course) and how they don't smell! I had the wetbag just hanging in my room and you would have never known! It does a great job of holding in the smell and wetness. Also, poopy diapers hardly smell as well, something I never really paid attention to until someone mentioned it to me. Overall it was a great trip and I look forward to more traveling with cloth diapers adventures :)

On a completely different note:
I was at the mall yesterday looking for a diaper bag/purse and got to talking to the woman about cloth diapering. She was super interested after I showed them to her (and after her EEee and squeals about how cute they were). She asked me where she could go to look at them more. It crushed my heart to tell her that there isn't a good place locally to go see and buy cloth diapers :( You could only do it online. Even more incentive to get more information about the store Luke and I want to eventually open in the Indianapolis area soley dedicated to educating and selling cloth diapers!