Keep them laughing

In my previous post I talked a little about our trip to San Francisco. Here's a bit about the actual trip home.

We got to the airport about 2 hours early, which is just about right since we had a car to return. Before we get there though we stop at REI to buy a small fold-up light-weight duffel bag. We always bring more home from a trip than we go with and our bag was just at weight when we left. Delta now charges $80 for an overweight bag. I think the $12 spent on the duffel was a good buy. Now if we can only remember to take it on all of our trips.

We drop off the car, get a SmarteCarte and load up and out. We proceed to the train that will take us to the terminal. Oldest sits in the very front window which looks out at the track below and pretends to be driving the train. Littlest must sit there too. Must do everything his big brother does.

We check in and of course the bag is 5.5 lbs overweight. Pull out the duffel. Gotta remember to pack that on the next trip. We go to security. Everyone gets through pretty easily. Where is the stroller? We left it on the other side. The TSA people were very nice. They folded it up, moved it through and and gave the boys Junior TSA sticker badges to wear. We go to look for food because it is now only 2pm and our flight doesn't leave until 3:30. Options are limited in the Delta terminal wing. Since San Francisco isn't a Delta hub we could choose from a sandwich joint and sit in the terminal and try to get the boys to sit still or go to the 1 restaurant, Perry's, and eat there. We decided on the restaurant. It was good and mostly relaxing.

The boys get antsy and need to run around. The terminal is about 100 feet long, not a lot of running around room. But the work on getting the wiggles out. Then comes the announcement. Maintenance problem with the aircraft. We are delayed. Luckily it was only about 1/2 hour. We get on the plane and the flight attendant hands them both cookies. As we are walking through 1st class, oldest announces that he is thirsty. I say, obviously loud enough for passengers to hear, that he will have to wait until after we take off and the beverage cart comes through because I forgot to get a bottle before we got on the plane. Some nice man in first class gives him his unopened bottle form 1st class. My kids are lucky they are so cute.

Actual time in the air was just fine. Boys watched a video and ate some snacks and behaved. The gentlemen in the row in front of us commented on how well they did. Hurray!

Finally we land. Everyone gets off the plane a little grumpily. We get to the baggage claim and all passengers are standing around waiting impatiently for their bags. Then it starts. The baggage claim turnstile starts to move and bags start to fall out and down onto the turnstile. Littlest starts laughing hysterically every time a bag falls. Everyone starts to notice and laugh with him. It was a classic moment. Thanks for cheering us all up!


Peace~