Safe Delivery

Hey, all you bloggers, I'm back! Whenever I go to Utah I have my favorite haunts -- BYU Bookstore, Nielson's Custard, Distribution Center, Lehi Roller Mills, Seagull Books, Kneaders, Cafe Rio, Expidex. No trip is a success without stopping at a few of my favorites. This trip, however, was so busy that I didn't have time to get to a single one of them; not even the BYU Bookstore, even though I was on campus for four days. As I was driving out of town on Saturday I drove past the Busy Biddy. Some strange, uncontrolable urge just took over and forced me to flip a quick U turn and go in. I resisted the $139 dollar jacket that caught my eye, but as I was leaving, that same uncontrolable force took over and "made" me buy this yard lantern for our front porch. What was I thinking?! I already had two bags to check, a briefcase and a purse. How in the world was I going to get a huge lantern on the plane. I managed to stuff my purse into my briefcase and that got me through security. But when I tried to put the langern in the overhead bin, it didn't fit. Nor did it fit underneath the seat. I was forced to call the flight attendant for help. Since it was so large, the only bag it would fit in was a plastic garbage bag, which didn't seem like much protection to be placed in the baggage hold. I watched the flight attendant carry it up the aisle, but instead of going out the door, he carried it into the cockpit. The pilot removed the plastic bag (to make certain it was what I said it was). Then they gently seat-belted it into the jump seat behind the pilot for safe transport. I love Southwest Airlines!