Airport Fun

No trip is complete without some crazy airport story! On our way to Utah - the only problem was that our flight was delayed an hour and we had already gotten to the airport super early in anticipation of all the crowds they talked about on the news. I don't know where all those people were because it was the shortest lines ever for security. Fast forward to Monday morning when we are going to the SLC airport to get back to Phoenix. We arrive at the airport about 50 minutes before our flight due to some heavy traffic at 9:00 am on a Monday morning. We skycap all of our luggage and have assigned seats on Delta so we aren't worried. The Security Line is busy but moves very fast. Rob puts his bag through first and they take a really long time looking at it. I was teasing him about trying to sneak something on the plane when they decided that they needed to go through his bag in more detail. They thought they saw bullets in his bag so in addition to the inspector, we now have police man that come running over. Rob gets asked a lot of questions - was in the army (yes), did he have any bullets in his bag (no), etc. They take out everything and can't find anything and we have more and more security people there with us. I'm starting to get a little antsy since we're getting closer and closer to the time where we should be boarding the plane. But the security people are in no hurry. They run the bag again and this time discover that Rob did have bullets in his bag! He had taken this carry on bag with him camping a few weeks ago and took one of his guns along and apparently some of the bullets had slid down into the lining. There really wasn't a way for him to tell they were there! The security people were really nice about it but it still took another 15 minutes to fill out the paperwork. Apparently you can have up to 19 bullets before you would get in trouble. We were laughing about that one because where did they get that number? Anyway - it was a pretty funny experience. But now we are down to 5 minutes before our plane is supposed to leave. So as soon as they finish the paperwork - we are RUNNING through the airport. People were laughing at us because we were booking it - Rob holding Ellie and I have the huge diaper bag packed full. We were on a Delta connection flight so of course it's the furthest possible gate from where we were and then we had to go outside and to the end of another concourse. But we made it!

Unfortunately the fun didn't stop there. Ellie was pretty good on the flight but of course wanted to be active. Her favorite thing was to peek in between the seats at the people behind us and laugh at them. Luckily we had nice people that would smile back at her. We get to the point of descending and I start to smell something. Wouldn't you know Ellie had a poop explosion! Rob and I both had remnants of it on us which just made it worse and kind of funny that it took us a while to even notice it. Not much we can do at this stage since the plane is getting ready to land and the airport bathrooms aren't big enough anyway. So we ran her up in a blanket and just cross our fingers that we get off the plane fast before she stinks it all up! Thank goodness for seats near the front.