Although our flight wasn’t due to leave until 3pm, we had to rise and shine very early. So many chores, so much packing, so much preparations to be done. Folding laundry, emptying dishwasher, cleaning kitty litter, tossing leftovers, loading dishwasher, taking out trash, taking our recycling, picking up, cleaning, sweeping, packing, prepping Phelix for a week at camp, dropping Phelix off, returning library books, returning Redbox movies, buying groceries and snacks and other things at Target, gobbling lunch, looking for lost Breeze card. By noon, I just wanted to take a nap!!
But we hoisted on our backpacks, pulled our bags and headed over to MARTA for the slog to the airport. Security was chaotic as usual, then finally we were walking the underground tunnels to Terminal A. If you’ve never done it, do it sometime. My kids will be sorely disappointed if the airport ever changes the art installation down there.
Food for the long flight easily procured. Plane begins to board. Before our zone is even called, the overhead bins are full. Quick rearranging of stuff so we can turn our bags over to the bag beaters. On the plane, the girls and I quickly settled into our little domain. The girls happily used Rob’s coupons for free snack packs filled with all sorts of tasty treats. I read and read and read and still didn’t manage to finish all the magazines on my kindle.
Uneventful trip. Until the very end. As we were about a minute from landing, a passenger got up and ran towards the front of the plane. The flight attendant jumped up and told him to go sit down, but the guy kept trying to push past the flight attendant. Another passenger, announcing that he was a corporal in the army, ran up to offer assistance. He restrained the guy, patted him down and then got him kneeling on the floor, all while the plane was landing and braking. When we finally reached the gate, we all had to wait as the detained guy was taken off the plane and turned over to the police. Everyone on the plane was a little shaky after that!
The girls and I quickly got our bags from baggage claim and made our way to the Super Shuttle. After a couple laps around the airport, we finally got on the 101 and moved right along at a snails’ pace. But, really, after not too long we were at Susannah and Luis’s house. The girls were too tired from all the excitement, so we settled in to playing video games and hanging out, other than a quick trip up to the roof for a glimpse of San Francisco spread out to the east.
