I love vacation, but sometimes I sure to dread getting there. The travel part of vacation used to be my favorite part, but that all changed after I had kids! We travel a lot between our home in Hawaii and the mainland and finding the right things to keep my kids busy on long plane flights and in the car has helped me to keep my sanity.

Here's an interested blog post on some differnet travel toys that you may not have thought of before. I always take a digital voice recorder with me on trips because my two daughters - 8 and 5 - love to play with it and then listen to themselves later. It seriously keeps them busier than their iPods and DVD players on some trips.

There's lots more ideas that you may not have thought of. Happy travels!