Little Ones

The best part of this trip....the little ones. I've had sooo many little kiddos on our flights and mostly sitting in the last row. They usually behave soo much better than adults. I've always said I would rather have 76 five year olds rather than 76 adults. Sounds crazy to many but it would be the most well behaved flight ever in history I think.

The first round trip we did was to Reno and on the way back I had two small ones (5 years and 2 years old) non revs traveling with their mom who works for Delta. The little two year old girl sat next across the row from her mom and brother all by herself. We strapped the baby doll in next to her and had her all settled. Not once did she take her seat belt off. It was her first time flying and she was soo excited when we took off and kept repeating, "we're flying away!". So dang cute. She even sang twinkle twinkle little star to me!

That same night we had an Indian family sitting in the back. The two little kids were sitting on one side with the parents on the other. The little boy was 6 and the little girl was 4. They were soo smart! She was sitting there looking over the Safety Card making up rules and the little boy was asking me tons of questions about the aircraft and the flight. Well then we had this baseball team on board. I really dislike when we have teams on board and they are all sitting together because then they play off of one another. They had a hard time with rules of the seat belt, phones, and keeping seats and tray tables up. Even during the safety announcement I had to stop because they were being too loud. It's disappointing when they set such a poor example for their team and school. Well one young man decided to tell me that his phone doesn't turn off. RIGHT! So this little Indian 6 year old boy sitting right behind this kid says "All electronics have a power button. You need to listen to the nice flight attendant.". LOVED IT. His parents didn't but he got told by a 6 year old!!! Poor little sister threw up on landing though. They were awesome!

This morning coming back from Las Vegas I had another 5 year old sitting with his mom. They were connecting to SLC to MCI (Kansas City!). Although he loves flying he didn't want to go to Kansas City because that's where all the tornadoes are! His mom says he watches the storm chasers show too much. Funny how they pick up on little things like that. He was worried a tornado was going to hurt them while they were there. I told him that I lived there for 25 years and had never seen one. It seemed to help a bit.

We now have the Delta plastic wings for the little ones and they love them. They get soo excited about having them on and being like us. I normally, once we have landed let them talk on the interphone system so they can hear themselves over the speakers. They love that. Unfortunately, it's been really bumpy so a lot of them have gotten sick on landing the last few days. Now we have to fly United and they have nothing for kids. Kinda sucks, but those kids made my first two days of my trip. Ready to go home soon though!