Airplanes and airports

Airplanes have changed a lot since the last time I flew, which was a few years ago to go to Scotland.  There's wireless internet, for one.  In fact, I am currently writing this on the plane.  I figure once I get to Alaska I'll be so overwhelmed with those stories, I'll forget the stories of this early morning.  So here we go!

I got to the airport and the bag I was going to check in was 6 pounds overweight, which would mean it would cost $115 to check it in unless I took some weight out.  So I took my coat and my toiletries out, and carried my coat and put my toiletries in my backpack, and that added up to 6 pounds.  Great, problem solved!  Right?

I passed through security and I got pulled to a sideroom  by one of the guards - apparently there was something suspicious in my backpack.  I had no idea what it was, so she pulled out my bag of toiletries, which had toothpaste, which you can't bring on the plane (Along with cleaning your teeth, toothpaste can also be used as an explosive!).  So she gave me the offer of "so either use it all or throw it away - you can't bring it on the plane."  I'm not sure why she thought I could use half a tube of toothpaste immediately, so we threw it away.

About an hour and a half later I get on my plane, and as it turned out no one was in either of the seats next to me, which was a nice little surprise.  But nothing interesting happened on the flight.  In any event, we landed a bit late and I had to run through the airport to find my connection flight.  The only stressful part was I couldn't find any monitors to tell me what gate I should go to, but I finally did (they were in the corner of the airport, which was weird), and then I dashed over to the gate and got on the plane I'm on now.

Nothing interesting has happened, except just a moment ago I got some spray of liquid on me suddenly.  I thought it came from the air vent, but the person sitting next to me (this time I have 2 people sitting next to me, and the plane is generally more full than this morning (but I guess more people take 9:30 flights than 6:16 flights.....)) was putting some hand sanitzer on and squeezed the bottle too hard.  Oh well.  But come to think of it, how did they get that on the plane but my toothpaste was rejected?  Oh well.

OK, so we're over Canadian air space and the wireless apparently doesn't work there (it is Canada) so...... that's it for now!