A Tiny Third Wheel

Before Ellie was born, you could say that Greg and I lived a nomadic life. We moved abroad, traveled as much as we could, and tried to throw ourselves at every adventure that presented itself. But then, as babies often do, Ellie changed everything. People began remarking that our traveling days were over now that we had a tiny third wheel along for the ride. And certainly, for a while we were content to stay put as time and logistics became exponentially more difficult. But I just never understood why, if traveling was such an important part of our lives before, having kids should change that. If anything, our desire to experience new places intensified once we promised to give our little girl as much of the world as we could.

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On Thursday morning we arrived at DTW around 6:45am for our 8:30am connection to Chicago. After printing our boarding passes and dropping off our baggage, we made our way to security where we were shuttled through the TSA pre-check line. Although we haven’t applied for the pre-check program, we are apparently frequent enough fliers on Delta to be randomly selected and let me tell you it was awesome! No removing shoes or belts, laptops can stay in their bags, the lines are significantly shorter and you don’t have to wait for someone to swab your hands if you are carrying a kiddo. If you are at all a frequent flier and eligible for the pre-check program, do it! Getting through security was easily the best part of our day. Everything went down hill from there…

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