Night Time Routine

So how important is a night time routine to your child??? I personally think it is VERY IMPORTANT! Last night was the night that we had to take Grandma back to Helen. The people that we were taking her to were very stupid and did not think about the fact that we had a fairly large party with two children when they chose this tiny little bar. The food was ok but the place was so crappy! It made me happy that we were somewhere like that though because Baby Bear was very very cranky last night! If we had been in a sit down restaurant then we would have way worse for her to have been like that. Well she is normally in bed by 8:00. We didn't even get out of the restaurant until 8:00. Its a forty minute drive home and she screamed for thirty minutes of that ride home. She finally passed out and when I got home we layed her down in bed and she stayed asleep...for maybe 3 hours. It was horrible. She woke up so many times. I will never skip her bed time routine if I can help it. It was HORRIBLE!!!!!