Luggage tags for this trip and, while we were at it, a future trip!

Thanks, Emily Duke, for your labors of love in making these!!

Yesterday, I made my third trip to Fed Ex.  I had done much online research. and Sharon Templeton had helped too. trying to find a place to make luggage tags for us and have them individually numbered.  Sure enough, could be done but at about $5 each. Definitely out of the VBS supply budget.  Stephanie Quilty had made nice ones for our last trip and we believed the card stock laminated tags would surely hold up...but somehow many were pulled off our luggage.  The Fed Ex employee on visit two was helpful, they could outsource the tags to be laminated super thick - like a credit card - for about $.50.  I was happy for two days over being able to have the individually numbered tags and a great price.  

Poor Emily, while Stephanie and I were discussing this while working the moonwalk event, offered to take care of making the tags (that was before she knew she had to round the corners!).  She did an amazing job and what a blessing it was for me to know the job would be done and done well.  When I dropped them off yesterday, the helpful employee I dealt with last time was not to be found. An hour later they had figured out how to enter what I wanted in the computer. Then they charged me tax and it took more time while they figured out how to credit the money back and do it again with no tax.  

Why do they need to be individually numbered?  Everyone will carry one suitcase with their personal items and a second suitcase with our supplies in it.  We have extra luggage in our storage shed and will assign each person a 2nd suitcase to carry.  It is confusing to be sure we have everything at the airport leaving and arriving.  Now all we do is line them up numerically and voila - we know if we have them all or what exact suitcase(s) is missing.  We also have a spreadsheet of the contents of each supply suitcase so we can find what we are looking for more easily.