We only had 30 minutes in Houston and 60 minutes in San Juan but it proved to be plenty of time to make our connections. This is Jacob watching all the planes taking off and landing.
Worst airplane food ever
Doesn’t Continental know you aren’t supposed to microwave frozen pizza? (This was Jacob’s favorite meal though. I should have given him my pizza as well.)
How Jacob used his windup flashlight to save the day
For unknown reasons, Continental gave away all of our assigned seating on our first flight out of Denver. The only two seats together that they could give us were in the last row of the airplane. So Jacob and I sat in the last row and played Uno and checkers. As anyone who has watched kids not sit still would understand, some how all of the (magnetic) checkers ended up spilling off the table and onto the floor. After collecting all the ones we could see, we were still missing one, so Jacob crawled behind the seats with his wind up flashlight, and found the missing checker stuck to one of the seat legs. I’m sure Jacob would tell you that his windup flashlight is an indispensible tool on any trip!
Jacob’s first travel crisis
Remember what I said about getting behind children in line
in security? Well, I was wrong. On our way to the British Virgin Islands last week our six year old, Jacob, caught the attention of the TSA security agents. In his Scooby Doo backpack he was carrying, in addition to the normal
treasures, a metal box of travel games, a metal Bob the Builder box to
collect treasures in and a wind up flashlight – oh, and a metal bell without
the clapper. When his
backpack hit the scanner’s screen the TSA agent stopped the conveyer belt, stared at the image for a while and
then waved over one of her associates. The second guy stared for a while and then pulled out his radio and
called for a third person! The third
person collected Jacob’s backpack and took it over to the explosive testing machine. By this time, Jacob was starting to look really worried. The agent took eveything out of the backpack, much to Jacob’s concern, examined it all, tested it for explosives and then took all the contents and the backpack back to the scanner. Jacob bravely fought back tears and asked why were they taking his backpack? We got it back shortly after that and the agent explained they had never seen a wind up flashlight or a metal travel games box before. Jacob is now sure he does not like security and that they take things from you!