Oh No She didn't...

So on our last travel day, sadly leaving the beautiful Steamboat Spring to head home to chores and work, we headed out to the airport.  I need to tell you that the tone of the day was set when Sutton spit up on her shirt in the rental car parking lot and then got it stuck in her hair when we tried to change her top.  I know, GROSS!  No time to wallow in our disgust…we have to get through security and catch our plane.  We’ll deal with it at the terminal.

First outfit of the day.

Off to Security we go…Down to our terminal…..I go grab lunch (every flight is better with a toddler if you can feed them)…time for early loading for special passengers like us.

Me, “Here’s you ticket”

Luke, “Thanks.  Are you ready?”

Me, “Yup”

Luke, “Where’s the carry on bag?”

Me, “ I thought you had it”

Luke, “I thought you had it”

Me, “I don’t have it”

Luke,” Where is it?”

So panic quickly set in as we ran circles around our gate and the surrounding areas to find our carry on bag (it contained both of our ski boots, so it was kinda important).  Then we had a choice to make….keep looking of get on our flight.  We chose the flight.  Thinking quickly, I called my Aunt (who is amazing) and she said she would look into it and let us know.

After we landed and I turned the phone on, it turns out that I had left the bag down at security.  What a place to leave an unattended bag in an airport.  I hear they frown upon that kind of stuff.  So I spoke with an agent and we set up a fedex account to ship the bag to our house….I have no idea how much this cost us yet, but I’m going to guess it was expensive if they do it by weight.  We were trying to out smart those tricky baggage weight fees by putting our heaviest items in our carryon bag.  I guess the jokes on us.

Here is the most painful part of the story…Ready??  It was my fault!  When I sat down to put my shoes on, I left the bag!!  Luke had the baby and a book bag, so his hands were full.  I mean, I am the one who usually has this train rollin’ on time and ready to go!  Ugggghhhh….

So a week later the bag was returned with all items and a sweet little note.