Luggage found, life is good

After getting no word on my luggage yesterday, today I discovered that they did find it and they put it on last night’s flight. It will get delivered tonight. Imagine my relief.

In my previous post, I forgot to mention the other bad thing that happened at Kennedy airport. At the Jamaica airport we bought some gifts for some friends and of course Danielle wanted something. There was a small version of those wave souvenirs, the plastic things filled with two different color liquids that look like waves when you tilt them.

During the long wait for our luggage, Danielle was half asleep and wanted to be carried. At one point she dropped this wave thing on the floor. So I just picked it up and put it in my back pocket so I could carry her. What I didn’t realize was that it had cracked.

Now I have no idea what they actually fill these things with, but clearly one of the colors has to be something other than water. Hmm, oil and water don’t mix, perhaps it’s oil based. So I’m standing there holding Danielle, when I start to smell something like lighter fluid. I’m thinking that I’m getting a whiff of airplane fuel from outside. But then I realize that my back pocket is wet.

This is officially way too late. At this point my pants are drenched with something that really smells bad. So the hour that I spent waiting to find out that our luggage was lost was a very smelly hour. Thankfully lighter fluid (or whatever it is) dries pretty quickly so at least my pants dried up.

But it took two washings to get the smell out…