It Only Hurts When I Blog

Greetings, Bloggy Twofer-Tuesdayers!

Here's a cute picture from Memorial Weekend. Savi is checking out the big, porcelain garden elephant at my sisters house, while she is holding the little cow my mother brought her. Cute!

I have some 'red eye' pictures I need to correct before posting them. I took a grand total of 213 pictures in 3 days... Sounds grandmotherly...

I am running a tad slow so I'll just tell the story from yesterday at the airport and dash...

There was a delay before we could get on the flight. Nobody ever posted 'delayed' on the board or told us WHY the plane was delayed, but somehow the word went around that something was getting fixed on the plane.

Security agents used that extra time to do spot searches of bag contents of those standing in line - including me... Hey - if they WANT to look through MY pocketbook and sort through tampons and such - go for it.

When we finally started boarding half an hour after the plane should have departed. I found a seat on the aisle and stowed my purse and carryon under my seat. Maybe half the plane had boarded, and an annoucement was made that we had to DEPLANE and take all our things with us due to a security issue.

They herded us into the jetbridge (talk about claustrophobia) and we stood there for a while.

Then they herded us into the lobby at the gate for a while.

There were all sorts of agents, police, sniffing dogs, etc. in the lobby, discussing whether we had to be marched down to security for rescreening. Then they herded us out into the main corridor, flanked on both sides by security agents.

They parked us in front of the restroom, and nobody could go IN or OUT of the restroom.

We stayed there for a while, and someone figured out that WE weren't the problem and they put us all back on the plane, no boarding groups, as they had already collected our boarding passes so they had to check each ID as people got on.

I got to Nashville two hours late.

What was the deal? If I understood this right- mechanics fixed a wind screen on the plane, brought the plane to the gate, and then went inside for lunch, unescorted. That was the breach.

Gotta go to work! TTFN!