Porqué Amo Aeropuertos!

I was looking over the intinerary for our upcoming trip to the Lonestart state and I realized I might be spending just as much time in airports as I will be spending in Texas. While airports can create an eye-bleedingly, painful experience, you have to make the best of it. Why do I love airports? It's PRIME grounds for people watching, second only to the streets of Las Vegas, which isn't even a fair comparison all things considered. Allow me to share an airport story with you. It will reinforce my love of the airport.

Pre-Sept. 11 days, when you were allowed to go back to the gates and wait for people, my family was waiting for my brother and his wife to fly in from Denver. Unbeknownst to any of us, there were issues in Denver and they weren't even ON the flight from Denver to Cincinnati, but that's an irrelevant part of my story. We had been sitting in the airport for almost 3 hours, dad was sound asleep and snoring loudly in an airport chair. I swear, that man can sleep anywhere (Hmm, I wonder where I get it?) and mom and I were doing our usual, pointing and laughing at people. That whole "if you can't say nothing nice" line..not used in my home.

So there was this guy, he was an obvious business man. He comes strutting off his plane looking incredibly pretentious with his rolly suitcase and his nose in the air. Then he walks into the bathroom, the LADIES bathroom. So mom and I are, of course, dying laughing. Then, he comes out about 15 seconds later with a 10 foot toilet paper tail hanging off his suitcase. Mom and I were in tears.

And THAT is why I love airports. There's too many people in too small of space, someone is bound to do something retarded. I think my turn is coming, stay tuned.

Now, just for fun (or not fun), some airport awards:

Airport with the most ridiculously tight security & Worst airport to vomit in:
Des Moines International - Des Moines, Iowa
Seriously, I wouldn't lie about that stuff. They frisked my 82 year old grandma there. And, I'd rather not talk about the vomit thing....

Lamest Airport Decor:
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - Detroit, Michigan
It has these weird color tunnels you have to walk through. It's like a bad verson of Fremont Street.

Worst Flight EVER!! -
Cincinnati, Ohio - Richmond, Virginia.
I'm sure you remember that one Kristen. For everyone who WASN'T frantically scribbling their will and looking for lawyers, notaries, and ministers on this flight, it was more like riding a school bus over 1,000 speed bumps. HORRIBLE!!!!!

Airport with the most ridiculously LENIENT security -
TIE: Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International - Erlanger, Kentucky & Philadelphia International Airport - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Both of these airports allowed me to fly without a state issued I.D...over Thanksgiving. Aaron hasn't let me handle my own license in an airport since this trip...